Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Bax, Arnold

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Johnson

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Stern, Judith

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Tracy, Brian

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Dylan, Bob

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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