Quotes about Experience

Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other imaginations and other remembrances; and little by little patched me up again with my old kind of delights, unto which that my sorrow gave way.

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.