Quotes about Experience

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.

It's been my experience that most people aren't truly happy until they've had many reasons to be sad. I believe this is because it takes all of those bad days and hardships to teach us how to truly appreciate what we have. It builds our resilience."2

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

Ivan and Willis, watching as Sadie panted, stood up, and then lay down again. "It won't be long now." Willis's eyes sparkled. He was no doubt excited, even though this was probably old hat for him.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.