Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Albert Camus

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Albert Camus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Stern, Judith

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

Barry LePatner

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

Godwin, Gail

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

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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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