Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Johnson

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Mccormick, Terry

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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Barry LePatner

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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