Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Butterworth, Eric

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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.

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Barry LePatner

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Marx, Karl

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mccormick, Terry

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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