Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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 is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Johnson

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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Albert Camus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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. 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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Stern, Judith

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