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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Marx, Karl

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Storrs, R. S.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Italian

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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

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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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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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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Billings, Josh

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The fool knows after he's suffered.