Experience Quotes

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  Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Learning, Rope

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• Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

  James A. Baldwin

  Sweet, Giving, Lasts

  "Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.

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  If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope

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

  Vern Law

  Inspirational, Sports, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Experience is a safe guide.

  William Penn

  Safe, Guides

  William Penn (1778). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.49

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• If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

  Mat Hoffman

  Life, Success, Sports

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• By far the best proof is experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Belief, Proof

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Universal

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.229

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiring, Karma, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

  John Keats

  Life, Real

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• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Feet, Over You

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Character, Adversity

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• We learn...
  10% of what we read
  20% of what we hear
  30% of what we see
  50% of what we both hear and see
  70% of what is discussed
  80% of what we experience personally
  95% of what we teach to someone else

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

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• You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

  Albert Camus

  Understanding, Minimalist, Experience And Learning

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

  William Osler

  Good Life, Vision, Seeing

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

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