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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

West, Rebecca

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

Johnson

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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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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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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Albert Camus

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

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Marx, Karl

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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