experience Quotes

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.