Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Proverb, Italian

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

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese