Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Stern, Judith

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Billings, Josh

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

18.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

19.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Marx, Karl

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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 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 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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Bax, Arnold

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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 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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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