Quotes about Experience
Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste.
— William James
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
— Heinrich Heine
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
— Henry David Thoreau
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
— Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
— Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
— Henry Ford
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
— Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
— Henry Ford
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
— Henry Ford