Quotes About Experience

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.