Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Marx, Karl

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

Johnson

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

Stern, Judith

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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

West, Rebecca

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

Albert Camus

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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