Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.