Quotes About Experience

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.