Experience Quotes

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it" "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." "To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while." "Illusion is the first of all pleasures." "Experience is the teacher of all things" "The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future." "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." "The more he saw the less he spoke" "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." "I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something" "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth" "I swear this life is like the sweetest thing I've ever known" "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."