Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

1.

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

Stern, Judith

4.

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

5.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

6.

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

Mccormick, Terry

7.

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

15.

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

Albert Camus

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

20.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

21.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

22.

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

23.

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

Barry LePatner

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Law, Vernon S.

27.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

28.

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

Storrs, R. S.

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

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

33.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

34.

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

35.

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Bax, Arnold

37.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

38.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

39.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

40.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

44.

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.

45.

You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

46.

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