Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

- Williams, Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

West, Rebecca

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

Tracy, Brian

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Johnson

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Barry LePatner

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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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

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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