My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.