Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Stern, Judith

Best Quotes about Experience

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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Camus, Albert

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bax, Arnold

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Albert Camus

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.