Quotes about Experience
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
— Madeleine L'Engle
but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An old ass knows more than a young colt
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light."—Madeleine L'Engle
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
cow. It finished opera for me for years.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What happens to what's happened? she asked the bishop. It's there. Waiting. But the time gate's closed, isn't it? Yes. But that can't take away what we've had. The good and the bad.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?
— Madeleine L'Engle