Quotes about Experience

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

I know that God lives, my brothers and sisters. There is no question in my mind. I know that this is His work, and I know that the sweetest experience in all this life is to feel His promptings as He directs us in the furtherance of His work.

I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.

All that are upright are not equally fitted for the work, and many that are learned, judicious, and more able to teach the riper sort, are yet less able to condescend to the ignorant, and so convincingly and fervently to rouse up the secure, as some that are below them in other qualifications; and many that are able in both respects, have a barren people; and the ablest have found by experience that God hath sometimes blessed the labours of a stranger to that which their own hath not done.

Brethren, experience will teach you that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, unwearied labors, and experience.

have found by experience that an ignorant man who has been an unprofitable hearer has received more knowledge and remorse of conscience in half an hour's close discourse than he did in ten years of public preaching. I know that the public preaching of the gospel is the most excellent means of conversion because we speak to many at once, but it is usually far more effectual to preach it privately to an individual sinner.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.