Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Persian

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Stern, Judith

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Marx, Karl