Quotes About Experience

If I stop to describe exactly how scared I was every time something scary happens, we'll be here for the next ten years. So do me a favour. At parts like this imagine how you'd've felt, and we'll both do fine.

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

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Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago. -Mat

There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.

Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.

What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own?

He was as much a fool as any man or woman. He just had enough experience to recognize it. It took a few seasons before a man could put that together.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.

With experience comes a determination to be set in your ways, to avoid new experiences.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would.

Men kept sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it would not burn, so

I read the books, all the travelers' accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.

No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king's jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.