Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Albert Camus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.