Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Eliot, George

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

Baldwin, James

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, 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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stern, Judith

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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