Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Experience

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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.

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Stern, Judith

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Johnson

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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