Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

10.

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

Jagger, Mick

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

16.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

17.

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

Godwin, Gail

18.

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

Stern, Judith

19.

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

20.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

21.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Tracy, Brian

24.

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

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Dylan, Bob

26.

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

Reagan, Ronald

27.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Barry LePatner

29.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Persian

43.

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

Law, Vernon S.

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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.

46.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

47.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

48.

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

49.

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

Mccormick, Terry

50.

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