Quotes about Experience
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
- George Washington
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
- Nicky Gumbel
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
- Will Rogers
There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.
- Craig Groeschel
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
- E Stanley Jones
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
- Timothy Keller
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
- CS Lewis
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain