Motivational Quotes

Experience

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Best Quotes about Experience

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.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Albert Camus

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

Camus, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Marx, Karl

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

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Campbell, Joseph

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