Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Woodman, Cousin

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.

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

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

Billings, Josh

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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

Barry LePatner

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

Baldwin, James

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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