Quotes About Experience

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1974–1977. The

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

My advice to those who wish to learn the art of scientific prophecy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents, the facts of experience.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Das schönste an einem Kuß ist jawohl, daß er nicht siebzig Jahre dauert. Es stelle sich jeder mal vor, er würde noch heute im Rachen dessen wühlen, den er als erstes küßte!

If you're a hermit, nothing ever happens in your life," he said. "If you're the opposite of a hermit, things happen.

Bliss in that age was it to be alive.' (He says) 'Why do people regard a period like this as years lost out of our lives when beyond question it is the most interesting period of them? Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?

which transcended anything they had ever known.

plunged abruptly into a world of coarse, ill-bred men and women, where language was foul and bluer than the bluest sky, was an experience Ã¢â'¬Â¦ harsh and unreal.

but human beings measure risk and privation within the compass of their personal knowledge.

No one earth life, however rich in experience, could furnish the knowledge, so nature decrees that he must return to Earth, after intervals of rest, to take up his work where he dropped it,

Being killed is a very different thing from dying.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old.

Pessoalmente, jamais admiti que, ao longo de uma discussão, se procurasse garantir vantagem exibindo a certidão de nascimento. (...) Não importa a idade, mas sim a soberana competência do olhar, que sabe ver as realidades da vida, e a força da alma que é capaz de suportá-las e de elevar-se à altura delas