Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Stern, Judith

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Albert Camus

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Stern, Judith

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Bax, Arnold

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Billings, Josh

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

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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 is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Storrs, R. S.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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. 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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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