Quotes about Experience
Natural men's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don't secure 'em a moment. This, divine providence and universal experience does also bear testimony to.
— Jonathan Edwards
To be human is to be beautifully flawed
— Eric Wilson
Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.
— Ben Carson
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
— Benjamin Disraeli
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history
— Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
— Benjamin Disraeli
What I am talking about is beyond speaking in tongues.Yes, I did speak in a heavenly language, but it was much more than that.The Holy Spirit became real. He became my friend. He became my companion, my counselor.
— Benny Hinn
But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .
— Graham Greene
A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced
— Graham Greene
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
— Graham Greene
One forgets so quickly one's own youth…
— Graham Greene
All good novelists have bad memories.
— Graham Greene