Quotes about Experience
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
— Dag Hammarskjold
My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.
— George W. Bush
Heartbreak is life educating us.
— George Bernard Shaw
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.
— Billy Graham
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
— Oscar Wilde
If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people.
— Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wine is bottled poetry.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
— Joseph Campbell
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
— Ronald Reagan
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson