Quotes About Experience

Education is what you know, not what's in the book.

Famous physicians never take medicines.

First Appeared in 1721

Fools repeat the proverb

He who has left a rogue behind him, has made a good day's journey.

Proverbs are the people's wisdom.

The mistakes of others are good teachers.

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, she or he has no experience with it.

A proverb is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on COMMON SENSE or experience.

Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged experience will enable you to every day accumulate more and more principle which will increase itself by interest and otherwise until you arrive at a state of independence.

But you know, there's a difference between thinking something and feeling something. I don't know whether I ever thought an answer like that was true before. I might have. But I never felt it. And I guess what that means is that if you haven't felt something, you don't know it.' 'That reminds me of something a poet called Kabir said once,' I said.... 'He said, 'Nothing that hasn't been experienced is true.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Not all days are same in life but each day gives us new opportunities to learn and grow.

El cielo o el infierno están en nuestra cabeza, no en las cosas materiales que poseemos.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

A little old lady once said to me, 'I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.

D.H. Lawrence said that it was not living life that mattered but watching it be lived. I would say that it was not watching life that mattered but explaining what you saw.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

To one degree or another I've spent my entire life since both attending movies and making them, trying to re-create the experience of watching a brand-new Jim Brown Film..