Quotes About Experience

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen too much to believe it.' "It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.

Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course.

Es verdad que la vida y la literatura se entremezclan de una manera tan indisoluble como intensa

Un libro ti rimane addosso per una vita intera.

La letteratura è una somma di vite: vissute e non vissute.

Uno piensa que con el paso de los años se va a volver más sapiente y criterioso, que va a ser como el viejo que le enseñaba a Kung Fu: el sabio. Pero es mentira, con el fútbol estoy cada vez más intolerante y maniático.

Lettore, io ti voglio raccontare, nero su bianco, una nuova storia. Su bianco e nero, oltre a ragionare, è bene che ci sia buona memoria, perché chi vive senza ricordare, vive una vita cieca e senza gloria.

cultivate the godly treasures within you by experience and the Word, then bring them to the surface by prayer and obedience. Believe God for signs and wonders to come through you. Determine to be used in this hour and press on to the fullness that God has for you.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

One learns one's mystery at the price of one's innocence.

So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.

Your age is not what walks in first; it's who you are, what you've done, and what you offer.

Access the energy of your youth and combine it with the wisdom and insights you've gained to forge your own path.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

I have had . . . easier days. Although in retrospect, this one is not atypical.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.

Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.

I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.