Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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

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

Tracy, Brian

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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.

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.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Stern, Judith

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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

Law, Vernon S.

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