Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- West, Rebecca

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Camus, 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 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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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 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

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand