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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Persian

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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

Albert Camus

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

Stern, Judith

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

West, Rebecca

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Campbell, Joseph

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dylan, Bob

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Billings, Josh

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Billings, Josh