Andre Gide on Experience
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- Andre Gide
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- Mark Twain
The years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
- Abigail Van Buren
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown
You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
- Stephen King
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings