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Quotes About Experience

All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.
~ Vivian Gornick
Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo".
~ Vivian Gornick
S láskou je to jako s pe?ínkou: ?ím starší jsou zuby, tím mladší musí být jehn?.
~ Unknown
Learning suits youth, the pleasure of teaching--old age.
~ Unknown
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.
~ Unknown
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel
~ Vladimir Lenin
I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, on the 'Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.' But... It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.
~ Unknown
Like so many aging college people, Pnin had long since ceased to notice the existence of students on the campus.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Words without experience are meaningless.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.
~ Unknown
A man's experienced palm makes any lady calm.
~ Unknown
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
~ Voltaire
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
~ W. B. Yeats
We that have done and thought, That have thought and done, Must ramble, and thin out Like milk spilt on a stone.
~ W. B. Yeats
The twist in his lower back that was aggravated by lifting objects, or sneezing, or moving, or not moving. No one had ever told him that growing old would hurt so much.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I know," Wenling said. "When I first came here, everyone wanted to be friends with the Chinese girl. And you know what they serve me when I'm invited to their house for dinner? Still? Chinese food. Every. Single. Time.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
~ W. C. Fields
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
~ W. C. Fields
Experiences that don't involve touching, seeing, or feeling actual results, such as being presented with an abstract sheet of numbers, are shown to be non-impactful and easily forgotten.
~ W. Chan Kim
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
~ W. Clement Stone
necessity gave them inspiration to action...experience gave them know-how...and I taught them the necessary knowledge.
~ W. Clement Stone
every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.
~ W. Clement Stone