Quotes about Experience
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
— Alice Walker
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
— Shane Claiborne
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
— Mark Twain
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
— Heinrich Heine
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
— Henry Rollins
You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.
— Paulo Coelho
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
— William Hazlitt
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila