Quotes About Experience

It is an optical fact that no two persons ever saw the same rainbow, and it is equally true that no two men ever saw the same appearance in any object.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

A man's children should have an education. They should get out and see the world and meet people.

You know, an old man like me can teach a young boy like you all the good things in life. But it takes a young boy like you to teach an old man like me to appreciate all the good things in life. I guess that's what life's all about.

I SUPPOSE THERE'S A TIME IN PRACTICALLY EVERY YOUNG boy's life when he's affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love.

I'd been living around Mama for fourteen years; and a boy can learn a lot about his mama in that length of time.

I remembered something my grandfather had told me. He said, "Never underestimate the cunning of an old river coon. When the nights are dark and the ground is frozen and slick, they can pull some mean tricks on a hound. Sometimes the tricks can be fatal.

Il terrorismo fondamentalista, di cui ormai abbiamo esperienza da vari anni, cerca di trascinarci nel suo baratro medievale. Aver permesso loro di trascinarci laggiù e di fronteggiarci sul LORO terreno, significa aver già perso la battaglia. Hanno vinto semplicemente facendoci accettare la loro regola: la PAURA. L'inclinazione ad aver paura implica la disposizione a trasmetterla agli altri.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

Once in a while we will stumble upon the truth, but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing happened.

Whatever one may think about democratic government, it is just as well to have practical experience of its rough and slatternly foundations. No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Here

Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.

through all the monotony and the splendor of life.

It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing. Such information is no use at all! It bounces off one's own grief – or jealousy or distress. If we are all born the same we are also all born unique – we all go through torments nobody else has ever had.

How old are you?" "Thirteen…sur." It was the first time she had sirred him. He might have known that these undersized, half-starved waifs were always older than they looked.

I thought, the way to love is through suffering. Who had said that? Did it mean anything or was it just the usual talk?

to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so. The thing was done.

Among the smaller gentry his London experience stood him in good stead;

Erano stati insieme, la bambina e l'orologio, la ragazza e l'orologio, la donna e l'orologio, attraverso malattie, incubi, fiabe e sogni a occhi aperti, attraverso la monotonia e la meraviglia della vita.

Someone—a Latin poet—had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.