Quotes About Experience

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Every day of your life is a page of your history

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more

We live but a fraction of our lives

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.