Quotes about experience
89 quotes from 75 people
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2, ch. 7 (trans. E. F. J. Payne), p. 74
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by FriarIn contextNo one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 7, p. 101I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator, vol. 1 (vol. 5 of The Writings of Mark Twain), chapter 11, epigraph, p. 125 (1897, reprinted 1968).No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 630, as translated in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999); spoken by Dido.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
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act IIIYou can’t undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willisborn 1955US Magazine. Issue 249.
