In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.