experience
“There are three kinds of men: the ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
“The value of things is not the time they last but the intensity with which they occur.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war.”
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”