Motivational Quotes

Experience

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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.

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Stern, Judith

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Johnson

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

Barry LePatner

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Getty, J. Paul