Quotes About Experience

Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is necessary that we possess those advantages which we have been cheated of, and which the experience of modern times has proved that nations even under the present conditions are susceptible.

We have more moral, political and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice; we

I heard, as all have heard, the various story Of human life, and wept unwilling tears.

Joy, once lost, is pain

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Y que la vida es larga, hasta que deja de serlo

Time is the wisest counselor.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual.

What's the difference between a novice airplane pilot and a veteran? Ask any expert and they'll tell you: A beginner relies on sight and gut feeling, while an experienced professional relies on instruments.

Look," says the Puritan preacher, the doctrine is "as in nature, reason teacheth and experience evidenceth"; to deny it "is to go against the experience of all ages, the common sense of all men.

I smiled ruefully to myself, knowing I had already experienced a far greater and deeper union with this man than that which propriety was so busy guarding against. I had seen and accepted our fate here, tonight, on the crest of this ancient hill, and all other ceremonies would be just that: rituals to please the people and make public the commitment that had been made in the privacy of my own heart.

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

Some people my age are seduced by this libertarian idea of having very little of anything by way of a role for government. I found that in my personal experience, freedom is secured by good government just as it's threatened by bad government.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water, dead children who spoke in bones. A man who loved bottles.

Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

A prayer room is] a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.

Human beings write stories, and read them, for the same good reason: to live