Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

West, Rebecca

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

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 which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft