Quotes about Experience
God does not want you to merely gain intellectual knowledge of truth. He wants you to experience His truth. There are things about Jesus you will learn only as you obey Him. Your obedience will then lead to greater revelation and opportunities for service.
— Henry Blackaby
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
— Herman Melville
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.
— Tim LaHaye
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
— Marina Abramovic
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
— Martin Luther
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
— Denzel Washington
When you start very young and you start to work, you're going to fail. That's how you learn.
— Gillian Tans
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
— Damian Lewis
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
— William Hazlitt
I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
— Yolanda Adams