Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Storrs, R. S.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Keats, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 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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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 praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Stern, Judith

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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