Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Law, Vernon S.

Best Quotes about Experience

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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

2.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

3.

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

Storrs, R. S.

4.

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

Aldous Huxley

5.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

6.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

7.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

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

9.

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

Albert Camus

18.

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

19.

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

Jagger, Mick

20.

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

Bax, Arnold

21.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

22.

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

24.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Marx, Karl

26.

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

Getty, J. Paul

27.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

28.

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

29.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

30.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

31.

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

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

Barry LePatner

33.

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

Bellin, Gita

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

37.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

38.

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

39.

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

Johnson

40.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

41.

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

42.

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

Dylan, Bob

43.

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

Law, Vernon S.

44.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

45.

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

49.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

50.

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

Tracy, Brian