Motivational Quotes

Experience

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

- Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Albert Camus

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Billings, Josh

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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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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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.

Twain, Mark

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand