Quotes about Experience
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Man must suffer to be wise.
— Cicero
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
— Henry David Thoreau
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
— John Lennon
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
— Dustin Hoffman
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
— Albert Camus
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
— Alice Hoffman
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
— Brigham Young
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
— DH Lawrence
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— GK Chesterton
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
— Marcus Aurelius