Motivational Quotes

Experience

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

- Butterworth, Eric

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

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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.

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 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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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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