Bitter Experience Quotes

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

Let's just say that I've had my heart broken more than once, and never learned a thing.

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.