Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

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.

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

Stern, Judith

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Albert Camus

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

Dylan, Bob

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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 private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Barry LePatner

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

Keats, John

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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 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

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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