I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

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

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

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.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

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

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

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.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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.

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

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount 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.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

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.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.