Quotes about experience

You can half-expect things. Try to face them in advance, case-harden your mind, you think - but when they come, it's always different.

“How did you do that?”

The Hymenopt inclined her head. “With respect, Professor Lang, great intellectual power, even at the level you possess it, is not always a substitute for humble practical experience.”

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.

It's like the old dilemma: You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience because no one will give you a job.

Sure—that’s the concept. It wouldn’t be the first concept that had to be modified in the face of experience.

Innumerate people characteristically have a strong tendency to personalize—to be misled by their own experiences, or by the media’s focus on individuals and drama.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

Thankfully, life is a university. Everything that you do or experience can teach you something, triggering inside you new thoughts, insights and realizations. You might be inclined to forget or ignore experiences that did not go well. Don’t. Learning from your mistakes and things that cause you pain is invaluable. The greatest lessons can come from the lowest moments in your life.

"What need had he of experience? Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour."

The harshest lesson of all was that which ran contrary to the teaching of his own personality.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.