Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Mccormick, Terry

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Marx, Karl

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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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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Barry LePatner

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Bax, Arnold

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

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