Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Experience

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Bax, Arnold

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Johnson

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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 is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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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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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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