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

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

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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

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

Proverb, Persian