Quotes about Experience

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

I love going out and doing new things.