experience Quotes

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Adventure is worthwhile.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to... ...

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just;... ...

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become... ...