Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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.

13.

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

Proverb, Persian

14.

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

Campbell, Joseph

15.

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

16.

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

Law, Vernon S.

17.

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

18.

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

Barry LePatner

19.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

20.

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

21.

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

25.

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

Camus, Albert

26.

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

27.

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

30.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

31.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

32.

Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Mccormick, Terry

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Getty, J. Paul

40.

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

Stern, Judith

41.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

42.

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

43.

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

Butterworth, Eric

44.

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

Bax, Arnold

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

48.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

49.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

50.

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