Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

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Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Baldwin, James

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Albert Camus

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Johnson

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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.

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

Billings, Josh

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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 is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Dylan, Bob

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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