Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Benson, Ezra Taft

Best Quotes about Experience

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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.

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Johnson

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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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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barry LePatner

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.