Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

- Williams, Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Stern, Judith

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

Barry LePatner

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

Baldwin, James

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Jagger, Mick

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Hill, Napoleon