Quotes about Experience
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
— Timothy Keller
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
— CS Lewis
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost... my virginity.
— Bo Burnham
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.
— George W. Bush
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
— William Faulkner
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
— Wayne Dyer
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
— Peter Drucker