Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Mccormick, Terry

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jagger, Mick

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

West, Rebecca

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Camus, Albert

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Bax, Arnold