Quotes About Experience

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

No man or woman can live another's fate

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.