Quotes about Experience
While we live, let us live.
— DH Lawrence
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
— Henry David Thoreau
When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."
— Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
— Anonymous
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
— John F. Kennedy
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them
— Dag Hammarskjold
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told.
— Calvin Coolidge
As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
— Anonymous