Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

Johnson

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

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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Camus, Albert

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, James

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

Albert Camus

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Eliot, George