Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Bellin, Gita

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.

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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.

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Johnson

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Barry LePatner

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

Ford, Gerald R.