Quotes about Experience

I wish you may profit by my experience. Alas, how much time have I lost and wasted, which, had I been wise—I would have devoted to reading and studying the Bible! But my evil heart obstructs the dictates of my judgment, I often feel a reluctance to read this book of books, and a disposition to hew out broken cisterns which afford me no water, while the fountain of living waters are close within my reach!

He not only enableth our minds to apprehend the truth, but he shines into our hearts, the seat of spiritual experience, to "give us the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories —in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

This vertical history feels more intimate and sensory than written history. It's been reaching out all along, I just wasn't paying attention.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.