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.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

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.

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

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

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

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.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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.

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.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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.

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.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

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.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

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.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

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

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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.

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.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

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 don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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

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

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

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

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.