Quotes about Experience
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
— Samuel Johnson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
— Samuel Rutherford
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
— Marcus Aurelius
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
— Cicero
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
— Mark Twain
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
— Amy Grant
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
— Deepak Chopra
It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
— Serena Williams
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
— Ian Mckellen
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
— Abraham Lincoln
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
— Dag Hammarskjold