Quotes About Experience

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Federico Fellini

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

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne

Intelligence Quotes

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. Ezra Pound A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. Roy H. Williams A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Catherine Deneuve A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. Jean-Paul Sartre All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is ne...

Famous Romantic Quotes

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. Drew Barrymore Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Elizabeth Gilbert Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Lillian Gordy Carter Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. Khaled Hosseini My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. Wild Bill Hickok My idea of a romantic n...

Love Anniversary Quotes

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. Garrett Hedlund Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. John Hawley So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. Anne Bancroft So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way. Barack Obama Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. ...

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