Quotes About Experience

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

Where Is It Written That To Be Successful In Business You Have To Be Smart?")

quoting a Persian proverb, "those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.

Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

To live one's myth is to think in its terms. To fulfill one's myth is to suffer through its source.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

I've seed de first en de last…. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Being adjacent to that much beauty—more than adjacent; immersed in, pierced by it—was the point. The physical risks were footnotes.

People who tried to start at an advanced age, meaning over fourteen, had, in my experience, almost no chance of becoming proficient, and usually suffered pain and sorrow before they quit.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

You don't learn that, she said. It's just there. It sounds like he spent his whole life trying to unlearn it. Trying to forget it.

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.