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

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

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Baldwin, James

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stern, Judith

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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

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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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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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

Albert Camus

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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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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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.

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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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.