Gregory David Roberts Quotes

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

He that travels much knows much.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.