Motivational Quotes

Experience

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

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 largely non-transferable.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Eliot, George

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Marx, Karl

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Aldous Huxley

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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 is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise