Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Bax, Arnold

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.

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Barry LePatner

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Albert Camus

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Marx, Karl

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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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