Quotes About Experience

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Every man has a history worth knowing, if he could tell it, or if we could draw it from him.

Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

The years teach much which the days never know.

The skill to do comes of doing.

Skill to do comes of doing.

To describe adequately is the high power & one of the highest enjoyments of man. She was beautiful and he fell in love with her. The thing has happened to millions, yet how few can tell the story. Try some of them, set them at the painting; each knows it all & can communicate nothing. Then comes Shakspeare [sic], & tells it point for point as it befel [sic], or better; and now we have two things, love & literature.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.

Todo barco es un objeto romántico hasta que nos embarcamos en él

Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.

The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult...So much only of life as I know by experience...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

It is not length of life, but depth of life

There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

I have forgotten the books I have read, and so I have the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped to make me.

We are all wise. The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art. I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me; who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his experiences were as good as mine. Give them to me and I would make the same use of them.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me.

Kant insisted that the mind has access to preexisting concepts and ideas, which enable us to process the information gathered by our senses. Kant called these preexisting concepts "transcendental forms." Through them, we come to knowledge by intuition, even apart from experience.