Quotes about Experience
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
- George Washington
Language like this, no doubt, seems foolishness and affectation to the world; but the well-instructed Bible reader will see in it the heartfelt experience of all the brightest saints. It is the language of men like Baxter, and Brainerd, and M'Cheyne. It is the same mind that was in the inspired Apostle Paul. Those that have most light and grace are always the humblest men.
- George Whitefield
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
- Gerald Ford
Laughing deeply is living deeply.
- Milan Kundera
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
- Albert Schweitzer
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
- George Eliot
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan
While we live, let us live.
- DH Lawrence
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."
- Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
- Anonymous