Quotes about Experience

The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil...It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility...

But all those who were there, if they had lived past childhood, had twice in this world, first and last, been as helpless as a little child.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Memory believes before knowing remembers.

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.

So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

When he saw the River again he knew it at once. He should have; it was now ineradicably a part of his past, his life; it would be a part of what he would bequeath, if that were in store for him.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.