Quotes about Experience
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
— Mark Twain
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
— Mark Twain
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
— Maya Angelou
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
— Phillips Brooks
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
— Robert Frost
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
— Henry David Thoreau
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau