Quotes About Experience

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

Only memories stay the same, young lad. Everything else changes

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

The horizons were wide enough for them all, he realised now, but the wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone. He could not bring back the years of his youth and live them with greater understanding.

History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.

The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done ." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.

We were so young then, but by the sky father, I am not that young man who had never seen the swollen dead. I am khan. It is done and I would not change it." He clenched his fist, taking pleasure in his own strength. "I will not let another stand in my place.

Robin had never been in love before, which is precisely how he recognized the sensation with such absolute certainty.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge ' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke with you was more than bread.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to 'Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Happiness is a fleeting thing, little mistress. You cannot hold it in your hand, you cannot smell it or taste it—you can only take it when it comes along.

Truth in art is truth in circumstances.

do not hurry the journey at all: better that it lasts for many years and you arrive an old man on the island, rich from all that you have gained on the way, not counting on Ithaca for riches. For Ithaca gave you the splendid voyage: without her you would never have embarked. She has nothing more to give you now. And though you find her poor, she has not misled you; you having grown so wise, so experienced from your travels, by then you will have learned what Ithacas mean.

De fato, pela experiência acumulada, pelo talento e pela capacidade de inspirar confiança, eles são, em geral, ótimos terapeutas no começo das curas. Mas os tratamentos que dirigem duram para sempre, transformam-se em dependência química.

Muito mais trágico me parece o destino de quem atravessa a vida sem se molhar, como se os efeitos (felizes ou nefastos) escorressem sobre a pele como água sobre as plumas de um pato.

O problema do prazer estético é sempre, antes de mais nada, um problema de atenção, e um mundo de prazeres é uma promessa que se realiza só para quem sabe prestar atenção.

There is nothing more amusing to Venetians than watching tourists who think the Grand Canal is all there is to Venice.