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

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

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

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

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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Buddha

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

Stern, Judith

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

Barry LePatner

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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