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

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

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

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 keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Bax, Arnold

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Proverb, Italian

24.

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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Camus, Albert

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stern, Judith

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

Van Buren, Abigail