Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Baldwin, James

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Camus, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Reagan, Ronald

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Barry LePatner