Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Law, Vernon S.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Jagger, Mick

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.

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

10.

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

Albert Camus

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barry LePatner

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

33.

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

34.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur