Motivational Quotes

Experience

By far the best proof is experience.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Butterworth, Eric

Experience is largely non-transferable.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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