Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Campbell, Joseph

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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

Albert Camus

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Stern, Judith

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Kafka, Franz

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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