Motivational Quotes

Experience

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

- Godwin, Gail

Best Quotes about Experience

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Dylan, Bob

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

Bellin, Gita

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Johnson

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Marx, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barry LePatner

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

Camus, Albert

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.