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

Law, Vernon S.

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

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Stern, Judith

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.

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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Johnson

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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

Baldwin, James

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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 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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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