Quotes about Experience

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life—as something I have passed, rather than have actually been—and almost think of him as of someone else.

He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.

Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.

I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.

Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrast

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.