Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Van Buren, Abigail

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Baldwin, James

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

Stern, Judith

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

Marx, Karl

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Johnson

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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

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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