Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Experience

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Bellin, Gita

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Italian

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

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Bax, Arnold

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Barry LePatner

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

Billings, Josh

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise