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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Albert Camus

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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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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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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aldous Huxley

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Barry LePatner

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Eliot, George

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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