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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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

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

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

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.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

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.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

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.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

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

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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

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

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

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.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

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.

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 keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

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

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

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

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

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

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

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

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.