Quotes About Experience

The wisest of the wise may err.

There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Suffering brings experience.

Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.