Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Barry LePatner

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

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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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Buddha

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

Johnson

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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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 isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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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 is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De