Quotes about Experience
It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.
— Chris Oyakhilome
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
— Joseph Campbell
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
— John Keats
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
— Oprah Winfrey
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
— Carl Jung
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
— Oscar Wilde
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
— Charlie Munger
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
— Thomas Merton
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
— Bruce Lee
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
— St. Basil
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
— Pope John Paul II