Quotes About Experience

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

The single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

We were late among the living.

Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time….. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief." On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.

It took a long time to get past the wall my demand for objective reality erected, but eventually I learned how to surrender my quest for reality and simply enjoy the experience for itself. And, slowly, I began to realize that "reality" was quite different, and a whole lot weirder, than I'd ever imagined possible.

A smart man learns from experience; a wise man learns from the experience of others.

My brother, Major General Lawrence Heinlein, once told me that there are only two promotions in life that mean a damn: from buck private to corporal, and from colonel to general officer. I made corporal decades ago Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but now at long last I know what he meant about the other. Thank you.17

The mystic possesses his or her knowledge of God not from books or academic study, but from experience, from the experience of being loved intimately, intensely, by God.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.