Experience Quotes

I'm a Loser,' 'Help,' 'Strawberry Fields,' they are all personal records. I always wrote about me when I could. I didn't really enjoy writing third person songs about people who lived in concrete flats and things like that. I like first person music. But because of my hang-ups and many other things; I would only now and then specifically write about me.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.