Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Stern, Judith

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Barry LePatner

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Baldwin, James

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Billings, Josh

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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.