Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Woodman, Cousin

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Campbell, Joseph

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.

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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

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

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.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Marx, Karl

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Barry LePatner

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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 comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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