Quotes about Experience
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
— Marilyn Monroe
I know so much about men because I went to night school.
— Mae West
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
— Mark Twain
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
— George Bernard Shaw
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
— George Bernard Shaw
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.
— CS Lewis
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
— DH Lawrence
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
— Henry David Thoreau
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
— Henry Ford
For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know
— Theodore Roosevelt