Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

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

Godwin, Gail

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.

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Barry LePatner

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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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 school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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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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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