“Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.”
William Shakespeare
DesirePerspective
Experience Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EXPERIENCE
Experience Quotes
Read 200 of the best experience quotes about learning from life, mistakes, wisdom and growth, from Shakespeare, Keats, Montaigne, Emerson and more.
“The end crowns all, and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it.”
William Shakespeare
TimeEndings
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; a stage where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one.”
William Shakespeare
LifeRoles
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past.”
William Shakespeare
MemoriesReflection
“Till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain.”
John Milton
WisdomAging
“Living well is the best revenge.”
George Herbert
Living WellResilience
“Nothing is so contagious as example.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
ExampleInfluence
“Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.”
Samuel Johnson
SorrowAction
“Delay is preferable to error.”
Thomas Jefferson
PatienceDecisions
“Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
AgingSpirit
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
Henry David Thoreau
DreamsFunny
“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
Benjamin Disraeli
YouthAchievement
“What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me.”
Robert Browning
AspirationGrowth
“An actual suffering strengthens, as Sinews do, with age.”
Emily Dickinson
SufferingStrength
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
George Eliot
Open MindPerspective
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it.”
Jane Austen
MemoriesHardship
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
Epictetus
HumilityLearning
“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”
Cicero
YouthAge
“Men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things.”
Heraclitus
CuriosityWisdom
“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
Democritus
KnowledgeWisdom
“I delight in conversing with very old persons; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go.”
Plato
EldersLearning
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
Seneca
WisdomEffort
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”
Plautus
PatienceHard Times
“I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.”
Terence
HumanityEmpathy
“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark.”
Dante Alighieri
MidlifeJourney