Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Johnson

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Stern, Judith

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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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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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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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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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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh