Motivational Quotes

Experience

The more experiments you make the better.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Barry LePatner

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Dylan, Bob

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stern, Judith

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Proverb, Italian

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Johnson

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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