Quotes about Experience

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no history; only biography.

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.