Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Albert Camus

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Baldwin, James

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Jagger, Mick

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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