Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

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.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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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 is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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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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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Bellin, Gita

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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 comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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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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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 key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Camus, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Stern, Judith

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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