Quotes about Experience

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Everything on earth changes - we have no abiding city here - it is the experience of everybody. That it is God's will that we should part with what is dearest on earth - we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.