Quotes on Experience

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.