Quotes about Experience
A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.
— Nelson Mandela
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
— Nikki Giovanni
We love because it's the only true adventure.
— Nikki Giovanni
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
— Nikki Giovanni
We love because it's the only true adventure.
— Nikki Giovanni
Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.
— Olga Tokarczuk
When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.
— Olga Tokarczuk
They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.
— Olga Tokarczuk
It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.
— Olga Tokarczuk
And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.