Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Butterworth, Eric

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

18.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bellin, Gita

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Johnson