Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Bax, Arnold

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Tracy, Brian

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Stern, Judith

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Trump, Donald

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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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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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca