Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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

Johnson

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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Bellin, Gita

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Billings, Josh

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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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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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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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

Stern, Judith

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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 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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Butterworth, Eric