Quotes About Experience

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

s past history and stand alone.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

Each day is a drive through history.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.