In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

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.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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

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

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

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.

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.

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

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

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

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

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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

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

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

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.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

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.

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

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

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

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

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.

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.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

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

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

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.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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

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