Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Johnson

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Barry LePatner

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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 only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Brandeis, Louis D.

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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