Quotes About Experience

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Nature and books belong to all who see them.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things

a man only knows what he's experienced

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.