I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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

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

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

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.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

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

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

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

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.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

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

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

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.

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.

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

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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 spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

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

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

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

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.