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

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Albert Camus

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Marx, Karl

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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 private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Bellin, Gita

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Johnson

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De