Motivational Quotes

Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Doctorow, E. L.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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

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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Camus, Albert

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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 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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is largely non-transferable.