Quotes About Experience

He only who has lived with the beautiful can die beautifully.

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow.

After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.

No. No risk, no failure. And without failure you're not really human. You're just skating on the surface of life.

Tragedy plus time isn't comedy,

Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.

Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.

Historie ?ycia nie s? tematem do dyskusji. Powinno si? ich wys?ucha? i zrewan?owa? si? tym samym.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.

It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.

Literature is built on tenderness toward any being other than ourselves. It is the basic psychological mechanism of the novel. Thanks to this miraculous tool, the most sophisticated means of human communication, our experience can travel through time, reaching those who have not yet been born, but who will one day turn to what we have written, the stories we told about ourselves and our world.

In the beginning, long ago, he fled his country, one of those bland, flat communist lands, and as a young immigrant got hired to work on a whaling ship. At that time, he had only a few English words under his belt, intermittent pinpoints between "yes" and "no," just exactly enough to answer the simple grunts the guys on the ship would exchange among themselves.

And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.

leven, het is een vreemd leven als men 's ochtends terugkeert naar wat men 's avonds heeft achtergelaten

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

There is a certain well-known syndrome named after Stendhal in which one arrives in a place known from literature or art and experiences it so intensely that one grows weak or faints.

Keitin teetä. Mustaa teetä. Saakoon nainen tietää, mitä on Tee.

Kto czyta, ?eby tylko zrozumie?, dopuszcza si? blasfemii. Czyta si?, ?eby prze?ywa? - to g??bszy, bardziej ca?o?ciowy rodzaj rozumienia.

You can't love a man till you've had a baby with him.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.