Quotes About Experience

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I'll concentrate on that. Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her—maybe I'll die trying.

You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.

When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter.

I wonder if I have ever actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

I have suffered much at the hands of human society. Forgive me if I seem overly suspicious.

This year I am twenty-seven. My hair has become much greyer. Most people would take me for over forty.

En mi existencia ya no existe la felicidad o el sufrimiento. Todo pasa.

O insanlar kusurluydular. Ama belki de benim a?k?m için ya?ad???m gibi onlar da bu biçimde ya?ayarak ayakta durabiliyorlard?. ?ayet insan, hayata geldi?inde ?u ya da bu biçimde ya?amaya devam edecekse sona varmak için büründü?ü görünüm çirkin bile olsa küçümsenmemelidir. Hayat?n? ya?amak. Ya?amak. Muazzam bir giri?im, insan? endi?eye bo?acak kadar.

He looks happy. Away from home like this, he seems a different person.

What do you think the path of your predecessors was, but the path of adventure?

Eskiden beri insanl?k ehliyeti olmayan bir çocuktum

I am the sort of person who can forget even the name of the woman with whom he attempted suicide) to get off from work. The sushi I was eating had nothing to recommend it. Why, when I have forgotten her name, should I be able to remember so clearly how bad the sushi tasted?

Kitap okuma denilen ?ey benden kopar?l?p al?n?rsa, hiçbir hayat deneyimi olmayan ben a?lanacak hâlde olurdum galiba.

I wanted once in my lifetime to know that great savage joy, no matter how immense the suffering that might ensue.

Tôi ?ã s?ng m?t cu?c ??i ??y h? th?n.

The older and wiser heads of the world have always described revolution and love to us as the two most foolish loathsome of human activities.

Burada bir insan evlad? ya??yor.