Quotes About Experience

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave actioî

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

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no history; only biography.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

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

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.

It is time to be old,To take in sail.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

Maturity is a result of learning from success and from mistakes—in other words, learning from experience.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles. (He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)