Motivational Quotes

Experience

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Keats, John

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Stern, Judith

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Storrs, R. S.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Camus, Albert

23.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bax, Arnold

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Dylan, Bob

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Proverb, Chinese