Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Bax, Arnold

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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

Billings, Josh

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Persian

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Keats, John

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Italian

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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