Quotes About Experience

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Qué absurdo llamar a la juventud el tiempo de la felicidad! ¡La juventud es la edad de mayor vulnerabilidad!" (Muerte en el Nilo)

But what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed.

Belki de kurtulmak ne demektir bilmiyorsun.' Vera, 'Kurtulmak m??' diye hayretle sordu. 'Henüz çok gençsin... Bu duyguyu henüz tan?m?yorsun. Ama s?rt?ndaki a??r yükü ta??maktan yoruldu?unda, kurtulmak isteyeceksin. Bunu sen de bir gün hissedeceksin mutlaka.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.

My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

Yes. Of course, you're very young… you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all—that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too, someday…

Oh, I leave it to your imagination, Mr. Latimer. I would not presume to give you advice, you know. The advice of such elderly fogeys as myself is invariably treated with scorn. Rightly so, perhaps, who knows? But we old buffers like to think that experience has taught us something. We have noticed a good deal, you know, in the course of a lifetime." A

Next year, maybe, she will look back on the experience and tell her friends that it was "fun"; but oh, the pity of it, not to gather the flowers of the Present, to let them wither, and never pluck them till they are dried wrecks of the Past!

But I've always found that those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.

The young people think that the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools.

It's really what people call intuition and make such a fuss about. Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. You catch my meaning, Vicar?

I shall, I think, remember that 11th of September all my life.

I remember a saying of my Great Aunt Fanny's. I was sixteen at the time and thought it particularly foolish." "Yes?" I inquired. "She used to say: 'The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. You catch my meaning, Vicar?

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

It's so stupid never to feel anything…

A charming creature and a lady—but then that was the kind of woman who invariably did get left, in Mr. Treves' experience.

To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.

just to be alive is a grand thing.

Yarg?daki deneyimim bana Tanr?'n?n, inanç, suç ve ceza gibi konular? biz ölümlülere b?rakt???n? ö?retti. Bunlar da uzun, zor süreçler. Kestirme yolu da yok.

Don't you," I said wearily. "You're a young man. You're zealous in the cause of right. When you get to my age, you'll find that you like to give people the benefit of the doubt.