Motivational Quotes

Experience

By far the best proof is experience.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

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

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

Stern, Judith

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Johnson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Tracy, Brian

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.