Quotes about Experience
But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion.
— Isabel Allende
Recently, a busload of us tourists crossing the border between Chile and Argentina had to wait an hour and a half while our documents were checked. Getting through the Berlin Wall was easier. Kafka was Chilean.
— Isabel Allende
Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age
— Isabel Allende
They're not dead, Lenny. They're more alive now than ever. That's what happens with age: stories from the past come alive and stick to our skin. I'm so pleased we're going to spend the next few years together.
— Isabel Allende
I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.
— Todd Haynes
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
— Marc Chagall
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
— Anonymous
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
— Anonymous
'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
— Harry S. Truman
To lose Is to learn.
— Anonymous
A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.
— Anonymous
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.
— Anonymous