Quotes about Experience
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
— Victor Hugo
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
— George Washington
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
— Mark Twain
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
— Nicky Gumbel
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
— Will Rogers
There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.
— Craig Groeschel
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
— E Stanley Jones
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
— Timothy Keller
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.