Experience Quotes

"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" "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt" "The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there" "I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something" "Your ability to execute to an ever-increasing and impressive set of goals increases with experience and learning from past failures" "The man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything." "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" "Always pass on what you have learned" "I think scars are like battle wounds—beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it." "There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions" "You live and learn. At any rate, you live." "He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled" "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." "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." "We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face" "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life"