Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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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 is often 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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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