Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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.

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

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

Barry LePatner

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

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Eliot, George

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

Storrs, R. S.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur