Quotes About Experience

History is no more than memories refreshed.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.