Quotes About Experience

La jeunesse est le temps d'étudier la sagesse; la vieillesse est le temps de la pratiquer.

Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.

L'adversité sans doute est un grand maître, mais il fait payer cher ses leçons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté.

To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.

Si algún progreso he hecho en el conocimiento del corazón humano, fue el placer que tenía en ver y observar a los niños lo que me valió tal conocimiento.

No deis a vuestros alumnos lecciones verbales de ninguna clase, puesto que sólo deben recibirlas de la experiencia; tampoco

La espada gasta la vaina, dice el proverbio. He aquí mi historia. He vivido de mis pasiones y mis pasiones me han matado.

La lectura de las desgracias imaginarias de Cleveland, ardorosamente hecha y frecuentemente interrumpida, creo que me hizo más daño que las propias. Había

Hay más: el verdadero placer no se describe; sólo se siente, y tanto más cuanto menos puede describirse, porque no resulta de un conjunto de hechos sino de un estado permanente.

No hay día que no recuerde con gozo y ternura aquel único y breve tiempo de mi vida en que fui plenamente yo, sin mezcla y sin traba, y en que puedo realmente decir que he vivido.

mas a la sazón contaba treinta años y me hallaba en París, donde no puede vivirse sin contar con algo.

Ma mémoire, qui me retrace uniquement les objets agréables, est l'heureux contrepoids de mon imagination effarouchée, qui ne me fait prévoir que de cruels avenirs.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Without the study of books, such a memory as the child may possess is not left idle; everything he sees and hears makes an impression on him, he keeps a record of men's sayings and doings, and his whole environment is the book from which he unconsciously enriches his memory, till his judgment is able to profit by it.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.

I do not like verbal explanations. Young people pay little heed to them, nor do they remember them. Things! Things! I cannot repeat it too often. We lay too much stress upon words; we teachers babble, and our scholars follow our example.

Since everything that comes into the human mind enters through the gates of sense, man's first reason is a reason of sense-experience. It is this that serves as a foundation for the reason of the intelligence; our first teachers in natural philosophy are our feet, hands, and eyes. To substitute books for them does not teach us to reason, it teaches us to use the reason of others rather than our own; it teaches us to believe much and know little.

JIMMY BEST ON HIS BACK TO THE SUCKERPUNCH OF HIS CHILDHOOD FILES

The Photograph and the Journal

The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.

Writing it has been a way of coming to terms with the impact these years have had on my entire life.

The times I thought I had dreamed it were one way of getting rid of it, part of wanting to lose it, part of what you might call a whole Manzanar mentality I had lived with for twenty-five years. Much more than a remembered place, it had become a state of mind. Now, having seen it, I no longer wanted to lose it or to have those years erased. Having found it, I could say what you can only say when you've truly come to know a place: Farewell

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy, Mom told me. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.