Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

- Roux, Joseph

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 only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Keats, John

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

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.

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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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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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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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Johnson

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Marx, Karl

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

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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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