Quotes about experience
89 quotes from 75 people
Giacomo Casanova1725–1798Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Learning from the 60s”
Michael Crichton1942–2008Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2, ch. 7 (trans. E. F. J. Payne), p. 74
Henry James1843–1916Madame de Mauves (1874), Ch. V
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Time Enough for Love (1973)You can’t undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willisborn 1955US Magazine. Issue 249.No one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 7, p. 101It is a flat’ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)Once in everyone’s life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep.
E. B. White1899–1985One Man’s Meat, foreword to the 1982 edition
William Hazlitt1778–1830“On The Conduct of Life” (1822)
L. P. Jacks1860–1955The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Agatha Christie1890–1976Third Girl (1966)
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940Tender is the Night (1934), Bk. 2, Ch. 11