Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Daumal, Rene

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.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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