Quotes About Experience

a wise person learns from their mistakes—a much wiser person learns from someone else's mistakes.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Mirar, escuchar: ponerse en modo esponja. Nunca deja de maravillarme el privilegio de que personas me cuenten sus historias, sus vidas; nunca deja de sorprenderme la cantidad de cosas que tantas personas pueden contarte si te ven dispuesto a escucharlas.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Our life isn't a story that we read. It's a story that we write as we live it, one page at a time.

This is life, I suppose. You stick to the moment you're in whether it's good or bad. Next

That's how we learn, ain't it? Accidents 'n mistakes 'n it's all worth knowledge s'long as we keep from grinding ourselves down in the gutter over it.

This ain't my first rodeo.

Life is risk, Leira," he chirped. "If you don't take the risks when they appear, you never really live.

Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.

Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not to judge them; simply to see to their proper dissemination.

I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining ... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

travel is compost for the mind

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.

I read somewhere that we never completely forget a thing, that there are the imprints of everything we've ever seen or done, all of these tiny details at the bottoms of our minds, like pebbles and weeds that never surface from a river bottom.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.