Quotes About Experience

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.