Motivational Quotes

Experience

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Italian

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Dylan, Bob

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stern, Judith

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

Billings, Josh

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Johnson

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

Barry LePatner

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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