Quotes About Experience

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.