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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Van Buren, Abigail

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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

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

Baldwin, James

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Johnson

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.