Quotes About Experience

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While its proponents might get the facts wrong, they get the subjective experience right.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Old foxes want no tutors.

One could always count on Baal for a religious experience, but not so Yahweh.

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be "an irresistible product" of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corrollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

Logically, such a nonoccurrence is just as much an event as an occurrence, but phenomenologically it is not.

Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.

He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

It was at that moment that I'd first begun to experience one of life's deepest lessons: you are the most alive when you feel the most vulnerable, not when the arrow is still in the quiver but when it has been released by the string and is flying toward you.

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

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.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strownBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

We two kept house, the Past and I,The Past and I;Through all my tasks it hovered nigh,Leaving me never alone.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.

We can only learn so much and live.