Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Tracy, Brian

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

West, Rebecca

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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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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Marx, Karl

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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James