Quotes About Experience

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

It is a pity the spirit does not grow old too.

Ng??i ?àn bà thông thái ?y h?n là gi? ?ây ?ang nh? l?i tu?i xuân c?a mình, cái tu?i xuân mà, nh? l?i hát trong các bài dân ca c?a chúng tôi, d?u có ??ng trên ??nh núi cao nh?t c?ng không sao g?i th?u

Just as in the dream, the agitated mind creates a delusory dream world and the dreamer identifying himself with it takes it to be real and gains experience thereunder; so too in the waking state, the waker's mind being agitated, projects itself to a world of delusory plurality and he gains therein his experience of a world, seemingly real for him for the time being.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I don't care about age very much.

There is no story that is not true.

What have you failed at this week?

If you want to be part of a group that bonds like cement, take on a really demanding task that's deeply meaningful. All of you will remember it for the rest of your lives.

Our lives are measured in moments, and defining moments are the ones that endure in our memories.

Studies of the elderly show that people regret not what they did but what they didn't do.

To experience more defining moments, we need to rethink the way we set goals.

Most PowerPoints aren't creating a lot of emotion. We decided to flip this on its head. Let's have people do something active and immersive. That's going to generate more of an emotional response so they will feel something. And then they can think about what they've learned.

Simple ideas: short sentences (compact) drawn from long experience

Stories are like flight simulators for the brain.