Experience Quotes

"To understand just one life you have to swallow the world" "The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write" "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees " "The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived." "Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face." "If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel—as far and as widely as possible Sleep on floors if you have to Find out how other people live and eat and cook Learn from them—wherever you go" "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." "The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about their travels" "To be alive at all is to have scars" "Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue" "Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." "The higher up I go, the more mistakes I make." "No man was ever wise by chance." "The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now " "The wise man does not grow old, but ripens" "Time makes more converts than reason" "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." "There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."