Quotes About Experience

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Bir sa??r?n sinestezi olmas? gibidir aÅŸk; müziÄŸi duymazs?n ama onu hissedersin...

Ya??yorlar. Ac? çekiyorlar. Ölüyorlar.

Ä°nsanlar söylediklerinizi ya da yapt?klar?n?z? unutur,ama onlara ne hissettirdiklerinizi asla unutmaz.

It is, I think, the journalist's vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience: ("Pierre, an out-of-work pipe fitter in the suburb of Boulougne, is typical of the new class of chômeurs . . .") just as it is the scholar's vice to believe that all experience can be reduced to history ("The new world capitalist order produced a new class of chômeurs, of whom Pierre, a pipe fitter, was a typical case . . .").

A snow-capped mountain in Switzerland, seen from the comfort of an cabin, can set off a profound chain of thought about ice and ancient history; a gentle snow in the Paris suburbs can create images that show the transience of beauty. The winter window has two sides, one for the watcher and one for the white drifts, and the experience of winter is often not one or the other but both at once.

The passage from the big to the little is what makes Paris beautiful, and you have to be prepared to be small—to live, to trudge, to have your head down in melancholy and then lift it up, sideways—to get it.

History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.

But memory remains, experience is a great teacher, and, after all, one has lived to play both parts. ~ E.D. Morel

Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. "But they

He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

They have come across an aspect of product performance about a brand that is startlingly impressive: that a Land Rover is designed to be able to drive 4,000 miles continually off-road, for example; that the airline I flew in on this morning had a masseuse on the plane that gave me a neck massage when I woke up; or that an ice cream that was forced upon me last night contained preposterously large chunks of Toffee Chocolate Fudge.

She revived the extraordinary Anglo-Saxon word dustsceawung, meaning 'the fascination experienced by someone looking at a ruin, a kind of daydream of dust, pondering that which has been lost: dust-seeing, dust-chewing, dust-cheering. The daydream of a mind strung between past and present.

In those days, now it was in those days, In those nights, now it was in those nights, In those years, now it was in those years

Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything

Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so.

Nous avons appris en Europe, par une dure expérience, que les gouvernements étaient bons à quelque chose, et que la liberté mal cultivée donnait, comme tous les arbres sauvages, des fruits souvent très-amers.

After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps no trade which requires so great a variety of knowledge and experience.