Quotes About Experience

Je voudrais apprendre à vivre enfin.

Things in Nature are neutral. It is our approach that determines whether sense objects are experienced as sources of pain or pleasure.

Para saber de amor, para aprenderle, haber estado solo es necesario. Y es necesario en cuatrocientas noches - con cuatrocientos cuerpos diferentes - haber hecho el amor.

Que la vida iba en serio uno lo empieza a comprender más tarde

Que aunque el gusto nunca más vuelve a ser el mismo, en la vida los olvidos no suelen durar.

James A. Connor

Maybe books are best, because you don't have to have money to read... A man can travel all over the world and come back the same kind of fool he was when he started. You can't do that with books.

Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them again.

no man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure; but having failed in one location and having been ejected, it is possible that in the next he will be a little wiser.

He wondered how men could live till they were seventy if they endured such passions as he had known that fifteenth summer, and although he knew many things...he did not even guess that men are able to live because slowly, one by one, they snuff out the fires of spring until only embers burn in white dignity, in loneliness, and often in cold despair.

A novel…is a golden kettle into which you pour all of experience… You can toss in great chunks of meat and fragrant bones and stock left over from the meals before. You can add fragments of character or the whole man. You can have scenes that fill a quarter of the book and others that flash by in a fleeting glance. In a novel there's nothing you can't do, if you do it with passion.

A man is never old if he can still be moved emotionally by a woman of his own age.

with a piece of frontier advice long tested in the crucible of practicality:

I am sure old men forget what it was to be young and to be wholly in love. Not even I can remember those breathless moments. That's why they give old men important jobs and big salaries and orchestras to lead. To pay us back for the terrible loss we have sustained.

James A. Michener

club, where everyone looked to be over sixty, even those in their thirties, and he showed Bruce how to order dishes that were the mainstay of the menu: beef with Yorkshire pudding and trifle.

Damn, you know books and sports on television. You're a triple threat." "Those are the sorts of things that keep you alive when you pass seventy." In mild

When Hiram Cater was seven years old his serious education began, not in spelling or arithmetic but in the brutal tactics of survival in a white world.

James A. Michener

In 1823 Thomas Jefferson, who as we shall see had long and painful experience with this incredible system, described it as, "The most dangerous blot on our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit." Today the danger is more grave than when Jefferson put his finger on it.

If a journey is long enough, everyone must die along the way," the old woman replied.

When Wiktor asked how Miss Trilling had acquired so much knowledge of music, she resumed an earlier explanation which had been interrupted: "I attended a distinguished college in America, Oberlin, where music was important.

James A. Michener

Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience from which to function, and he was suddenly tired of Yale