Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Experience

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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stern, Judith

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Barry LePatner

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Reagan, Ronald

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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 -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Baldwin, James

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

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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.

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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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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus