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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Bax, Arnold

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

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

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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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 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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aldous Huxley

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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 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

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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 a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Baldwin, James

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Stern, Judith

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