Motivational Quotes

Experience

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

- Cadman

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 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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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

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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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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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Camus, Albert