Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

- Roux, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Johnson

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

Barry LePatner

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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.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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 praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall