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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mccormick, Terry

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.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Marx, Karl

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Pascal, Blaise

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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

Billings, Josh

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Camus, Albert

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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

Albert Camus

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

Storrs, R. S.

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