Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Marx, Karl

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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.

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

Stern, Judith

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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 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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Buddha

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Barry LePatner

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

Reagan, Ronald