Quotes About Experience

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

you have to have unhappiness to know what happiness is.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

The insula is the heart of subjective emotional experience. It's the brain region where our perception of what's happening to us matters more than what's really happening to us. The

Practicing is greater than knowing." Not better than knowing. Greater.

Fish can pass memories between generations. But maybe the better way to say it is that fish can pass experience learning through generations.

child deprived of the opportunity to discuss mistakes can't learn from them.

Zimmerman had seen so much blood, mayhem, and wretched sorrow in his day, and had liberated so many Hispanic ladies from their underwear, that it was clear to many that he was the only man for the job.

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

Though not boastful, Leonard gives off an unmistakable air of a man who has always been there before you. He possesses that old-soul thing of wisdom more ancient than his body and his face.

T]here are more and more Western scholars who [...] strive to experience Buddhism directly in the Eastern countries where it has long been a central element of cultural tradition. They must be clearly distinguished from those Westerners who, unable or unwilling to confront themselves with their own Western tradition, frivolously escape to any different world.

We are still a long way from having sorted out wild conjecture from reasonable hypothesis in the maelstrom of ideas. Meantime, it has become irrevocably clear that there are whole blocks of experience that do not fit received patterns and may require new paradigms of mind.