Quotes About Experience

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

T]here can be no doubt that we should take the best system of government to be the one that combines [kingship, aristocracy, and democracy]. This is not just a matter of theory: we have actual experience of such a system in the Spartan constitution, which Lycurgus founded along these lines.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

When your own painful experiences inspire you to the extent that you become truly determined to break free of suffering, that is what the Buddha taught as the attitude of "renunciation.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

Live to live and you will learn to live

Three things have I never known,' he boasted once. 'Fear, and defeat, and love-sickness.' Imric looked at him strangely. 'Young are you,' he murmured, 'not to have known the three ultimates of human life.

Sí, hijo mío —rió con fatiga—. He conocido el cambio. He sentido que el tiempo corría como un río caudaloso, arrastrando en su torrente esperanzas naufragadas.

Berbahagialah dia yang makan dari keringatnya sendiri bersuka karena usahanya sendiri dan maju karena pengalamannya sendiri.

Setiap pengalaman yang tidak dinilai baik oleh dirinya sendiri ataupun orang lain akan tinggal menjadi sesobek kertas dari buku hidup yang tidak punya makna. Padahal setiap pengalaman tak lain daripada fondasi kehidupan

Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.

Sepandai-pandaimya lelaki, kata bujang nenekku dulu semasa aku masih sangat muda, kalau sedang gandrung: dia sungguh sebodoh-bodoh si tolol.

Cinta ini indah, Minke, terlalu indah, yang bisa didapatkan dalam hidup manusia yang pendek ini.

Keindahannya ada dalam kenang-kenangan.

Dan rangsang hidup itu ogah dibius padam begitu saja: lihatlah, bukan saja kerjamu belum selesai, yang selesai pun terlalu banyak cacat dan cela. Imajinasi saja tidak cukup. Kau harus tinggal hidup, paling tidak tiga puluh tahun lagi. Sertai dan saksikan akhir dari semua ini!

Nyai Ontosoroh: Tapi di depan hukum kau tak bakal menang. Kau menghadapi orang Eropa, Nyo. Sampai-sampai jaksa dan hakim akan mengeroyok kau, dan kau tak punya pengalaman pengadilan. Tidak semua pokrol dan advokat bisa dipercaya, apalagi kalau soalnya Pribumi menggugat Eropa.

The Unfinished Memoirs,

retelling of India's political history as I have experienced it. The Dramatic Decade is the first of a trilogy; this book covers the period between 1969 and 1980. It begins with my entry into public life as a member of the Rajya Sabha and covers three epochal events—the war that led to the liberation

A story never ends, it just have incidents.