Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Experience

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

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

Johnson

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Barry LePatner

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Stern, Judith

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Tracy, Brian

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur