Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Albert Camus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Marx, Karl

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Benjamin, Walter

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Barry LePatner

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Persian

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Baldwin, James

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Stern, Judith

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

Camus, Albert

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