Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Italian

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

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

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

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.