Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Getty, J. Paul

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Barry LePatner

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

Marx, Karl

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

Stern, Judith

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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