Quotes on “experience”

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.