Quotes about Experience
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
— Martin Luther
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
— Denzel Washington
When you start very young and you start to work, you're going to fail. That's how you learn.
— Gillian Tans
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
— William Hazlitt
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
— Thomas Monson
Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.
— Billy Graham
You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
— Amy Grant
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
— Marty Rubin
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
— Mark Twain
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
— Anne Lamott
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
— Jim Rohn