Quotes About Experience

Scuba diving is itself a hazardous sport. To do it without any training is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with a loaded revolver.

Experienced cave divers are fond of pointing out to the public that caves do not kill divers, divers do.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

Women are like cheese strudels. When first baked, they are crisp and fresh on the outside, but the filling is unsettled and indigestible; in age, the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling comes at last into its own.

I think that anyone who reaches the age of three or four has more than likely already had all the misery he or she needs.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

Pero yo le podría evitar el sufrimiento, la lucha, el dolor y la tristeza a los que va a tener que enfrentarse. ?Nuestra experiencia es lo único que no podemos ofrecer a los demás. Cada uno tiene que pasar por su propio dolor y pesar para poder encontrar la alegría y la felicidad que hay al otro lado ?le dijo Merlín con dulzura.

Queréis decir que no hay diferencia entre estar despierta o dormida? ?Básicamente, no, pues siempre estamos en un estado de aprendizaje. Creemos que soñar dormidos es diferente porque a menudo esos sueños nos proporcionan mensajes y símbolos que no son comprensibles. Pero, considerad vuestro estado de vigilia, ¿no os encontráis con frecuencia envuelta en sucesos que no son comprensibles? ?le contestó Merlín.

Hemos fracasado ?gimió Julieta. Merlín les sonrió con gran ternura. ?No ?contestó?. Esto no es un fracaso, sólo es una experiencia.

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.

Should one therefore regard Auschwitz as a place to understand evil or as a shrine to the dead and all their sufferings? Or merely as a measure of distance between the experience of those who survived Auschwitz and those who can never comprehend what that meant? In

It is not that you know nothing about war, young man. It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Hector Berlioz's witty comment, "Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its students.

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The old dog barks backward without getting up.I can remember when he was a pup.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.