Experience Quotes

"In life, there is so much sadness as well as joy" "Comparisons are easily done once you’ve had a taste of perfection" "My mistakes are my life." "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half" "There is a pleasure in being mad that only the madman knows." "The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it" "Experience has taught me that the features of a man's face are a narrative which is revealed as attentively as a fragment of a written text " "Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius" "Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life" "Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did." "The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing." "Life itself is a risk and the one who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." "You are the music while the music lasts" "The life one lives is at least interesting" "Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own" "A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood, it becomes a living experience" "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals." "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn"