"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." ― George Bernard Shaw Topic(s): Experience Tags: proportion More From George Bernard Shaw "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time." "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell." "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." More In Experience "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."― Desiderius Erasmus "If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."― William James "The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it’s true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres."― Peter Hammill