Experience Quotes

"We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face" "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." "Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body." "Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world " "Your best teacher is your last mistake." "He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled" "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt" "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct." "I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions — the curtain was up." "Experts often possess more data than judgment." "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience" "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits." "A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." "Where is the creativity? Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience." "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best" "Always pass on what you have learned" "Experience is what you got when you didn't get what you wanted" "There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"