Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Eliot, George

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stern, Judith

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Camus, Albert

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Reagan, Ronald