Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Dylan, Bob

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.

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Marx, Karl

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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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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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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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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 which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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 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 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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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