Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

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Best Quotes about Experience

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Stern, Judith

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Albert Camus

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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 is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Eliot, George

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

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Butterworth, Eric