Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Hill, Napoleon

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Barry LePatner

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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 is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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