Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

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

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Albert Camus

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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 learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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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

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Aldous Huxley

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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