Motivational Quotes

Experience

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Camus, Albert

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Aldous Huxley

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Johnson

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

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

Barry LePatner

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Bellin, Gita