Quotes about experience

...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.

To see the world means judging the judges.

I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone

Yeah, oh.

I recommend walkin' around naked in your living room

Yeah.Swallow it down (What a jagged little pill)

It feels so good (Swimming in your stomach)

Wait until the dust settlesYou live, you learn.

You love, you learn.

You cry, you learn.

You lose, you learn.

You bleed, you learn.

You scream, you learn.

You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson or an equation.

It was a philosophy deformed by that disease so fatal to philosophers – personal experience.

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory - humorous, poignant, humane allegory - disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

Experience is wine, and art is the brandy we distill from it.

an optimist is a guy

that has never had

much experience

Oh, I have strong opinions, but a thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out. Galileo proved that and it may be the only certainty we have.

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn — when they do, which isn't often — on their own, the hard way.