Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Godwin, Gail

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Albert Camus

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Billings, Josh

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Stern, Judith

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Barry LePatner

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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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

Camus, Albert

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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