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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Stern, Judith

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Albert Camus

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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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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.