Quotes About Experience

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Nobody knows more than can be learned in a single lifetime

with than the person who actually lived.

And that, said Bean, is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

A human child loses almost all the memories of the first years of its life, and its long-term memories only take root in its second or third year of life; everything before that is lost, so that the child cannot remember the beginning of life.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Wisdom comes with winters

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.