Quotes about Experience
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
- Elisabeth Elliot
The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
- Alice Walker
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
- Shane Claiborne
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
- Mark Twain
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
- Henry Rollins
You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.
- Paulo Coelho
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
- William Hazlitt
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
- John Updike
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- Teresa of Avila