Quotes About Experience

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

How we react to our friends as well as who we pick as a lover, our abilities and interests at work, in fact almost everything about our psychology as an adult is continually reflecting our childhood in our day-to-day, moment-by-moment experience.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Music is part of being human.

Some men never recover from education.

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is.

You transcend your own self through acting out someone else's life.

I was heartbroken, but used to it; the patterns of struggle and failure in life tend to repeat themselves.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.