Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Keats, John

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

Bellin, Gita

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Woodman, Cousin

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Billings, Josh

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Camus, Albert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Baldwin, James

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

Stern, Judith

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

Jagger, Mick