Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

Albert Camus

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Dylan, Bob

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Stern, Judith

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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