Experience Quotes - Page 12

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  Quintilian

  Valuable

  "De Institutione Oratoria" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45., 1922.

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• Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

  Harvey Mackay

  Mistake, Past, Repeats

  "INSTANT MBA: Make Every Day A Clean Slate" by Jhaneel Lockhart, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Witty, Learning

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• A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Numbers, People, Movement

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• Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Mistake, Women

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

  Eudora Welty

  Enrichment

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• Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Lucky

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

  Naomi Judd

  Giving, Lessons, Tests

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• God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Portraits, Paint

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.164

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• To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

  Walter Bagehot

  Essentials, Great Experiences, One Thing

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'Shakespeare - the Individual'

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• We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Future, Drug

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.50, Library of America

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• The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

  Timothy Mo

  Art, Men, Tea

  1986 An Insular Possession, ch.4.

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• And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Spiritual, Warrior

  "Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan".

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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.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Experience teaches only the teachable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Teaching, Teachable

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

  Denis Donoghue

  Country, Division, Matter

  1986 We Irish.

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• The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

  Asger Jorn

  Lying, Care, Matter

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Home, Personal Experiences

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

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• Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

  Amelia Earhart

  Success, Responsibility, Realizing

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

  Clark Moustakas

  Change, Strength, Being Yourself

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Worst Enemy, Insightful

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