Quotes about Experience

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

To lose Is to learn.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their 'reputation' or shame won't let them pick up a non-fiction book. They can watch characters struggle, then experience the truth that sets them free.

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.