Quotes about Experience

and on the way to, yet long before he has reached, that supreme perfection, he will have found, working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot, therefore, give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.

As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances

Las circunstancias son el medio por el que el alma recibe lo que le corresponde.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish.

Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living.

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.