Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

West, Rebecca

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Mccormick, Terry

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Albert Camus

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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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 a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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 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.