Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Experience

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

West, Rebecca

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Russell, Bertrand

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph