Quotes about Experience

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.