Quotes About Experience

Hindsight is an exact science.

Only four years ago they had presumably been carefree, single girls laughing in a disco and now, as if hardened by some battle, they were assertive, humourless creatures he would not care to live with.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

But I want more. I want reasons to have faith in my faith, to have a reasonable confidence that there is actually truth in what my religion teaches me about God and my relation to God. And that faith has to be based on something within myself that I already trust: it has to be consonant with my experience of the universe and my abilities to reason about that universe.

For what it's worth, in my experience astronomers are more likely than biologists to be believers. But several surveys, more scientific than my anecdotal experiences, have confirmed that in academic settings, the real atheists are to be found in English Literature departments.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

Aaargh...that'll teach me to eat pig in the promised land. Sorry Baby Jesus.

ultimately, what common sense finds natural is what it is familiar with.

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight.

We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

He didn't think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.

Forgetting is part of our lives, my lord. Sometimes it is a blessing, or we could never move beyond loss.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

It was upon them. Who knows love? Who says he knows love? What is love, tell me. An old song. A child's song.

You would not have believed," he said. "You would always have doubted. We needed to grow older, you and I, for me to say this and you to hear it.