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

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 write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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

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

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

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

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

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.

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

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.

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

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

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

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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

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

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

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.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

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.

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

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

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.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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.

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