Quotes About Experience

The good thing about being old is not being young.

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent...or biased...

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

Literature is the history of the soul.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.