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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Billings, Josh

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Barry LePatner

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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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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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