Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Barry LePatner

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Marx, Karl

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

Stern, Judith

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Baldwin, James

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Persian

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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