Quotes about Experience

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

The skill to do comes of doing.

We are all wise. The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art. I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me; who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his experiences were as good as mine. Give them to me and I would make the same use of them.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

When you have worn out shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.