Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Keats, John

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aldous Huxley

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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Albert Camus

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is the key to greatness.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Camus, Albert

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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 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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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