Quotes about Experience
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.
- CS Lewis
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
- DH Lawrence
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
- Henry David Thoreau
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
- Henry Ford
For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know
- Theodore Roosevelt
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
- Theodore Roosevelt
While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.
- Theodore Roosevelt
i am part of everything that i have read
- Theodore Roosevelt
life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.
- Thomas a Kempis