Quotes about Experience
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
- Joe Biden
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We have been endowed with spiritual senses so that we can feel and enjoy God's presence.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- St. Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
- St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
- St. Augustine
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
- Francis de Sales
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
- Saint Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
- Saint Jerome
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
- Samuel Beckett
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- Samuel Johnson