Experience Quotes

"Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." "The higher up I go, the more mistakes I make." "No man was ever wise by chance." "The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now " "The wise man does not grow old, but ripens" "Time makes more converts than reason" "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." "There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are" "By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show" "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" "It is necessary to unlearn what we have learned because there is no substitute for experience"