Quotes about experience

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

Mill, John Stuart on experience   

"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 on experience
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
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"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

Pascal, Blaise on experience   

"Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end."

Pater, Walter on experience   

"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."

Peale, Norman Vincent on experience   

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

Proverb, Chinese on experience
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on experience
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"I know by my own pot how the others boil."

Proverb, French on experience   

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

Proverb, Italian on experience
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"He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string."

Proverb, Persian on experience   

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

Reagan, Ronald on experience   

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

Rodin, Auguste on experience   

"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."

Rogers, Carl on experience   

"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 on experience
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"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Roux, Joseph on experience
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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 on experience   

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

Shaw, George Bernard on experience
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"

Shaw, George Bernard on experience   

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

Shaw, George Bernard on experience   

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"All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience."

Sidney, Sir Philip on experience   

"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. on experience
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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 on experience   

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

Stern, Judith on experience   

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

Storrs, R. S. on experience   

"Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on experience   

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

Teresa of Avila, St. on experience   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on experience
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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."

Tracy, Brian on experience   

"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 on experience   

"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 on experience
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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 on experience
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"Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else."

Unknown, Source on experience   

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

Unknown, Source on experience   

"Everyone has 20/20 hindsight"

Unknown, Source on experience   

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

Unknown, Source on experience   

"Experience is largely non-transferable."

Unknown, Source on experience   

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

Unknown, Source on experience   

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

Unknown, Source on experience   

"Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise"

Unknown, Source on experience