Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Stern, Judith

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Camus, Albert

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Albert Camus