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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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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 is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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. 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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Stern, Judith

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

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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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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 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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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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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 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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Tracy, Brian

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Marx, Karl