Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Stern, Judith

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Reagan, Ronald

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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.

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.

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

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

Albert Camus

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Baldwin, James

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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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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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 you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.