Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the extract of suffering.

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Tracy, Brian

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

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

West, Rebecca

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

Johnson

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir 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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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 comes from bad judgment.