Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
—Charlie Chaplin
…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
—Henry Ford
Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young.
The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young.
The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We want experienced men and women to talk to converted children, and to tell them what the Lord has done for them, and what have been their dangers, their sins, their sorrows, and their comforts.”
“We want experienced men and women to talk to converted children, and to tell them what the Lord has done for them, and what have been their dangers, their sins, their sorrows, and their comforts.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Good people will bring you happiness, bad people will reward you with experience, the worst ones will teach you a lesson, and the best ones will give you memories. Appreciate each one.
—Taras Shevchenko
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. – C.S. Lewis
Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur.
—J. Gresham Machen
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
—Nikolai Gogol
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
—Henry Ford
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
—Sigmund Freud
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
—Carl Jung
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
—Aldous Huxley
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. – C.S. Lewis
Love people and animals and you will experience overwhelming joy from being with them.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is very proper for us when we have experienced the mercy of God and praise him for that, at the same time to praise him for his other perfections.
—Jonathan Edwards
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
—George Washington
“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience.
—Carl Jung
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
—Charlie Chaplin
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
—Immanuel Kant
Our God DOES satisfy. I think sometimes He has to draw us into strange experiences in order that we shall prove Him to the uttermost, for some purpose out of sight.
—Amy Carmichael
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde
Experience teaches only the teachable.
—Aldous Huxley
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
—Georg Hegel
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience, it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
—Leonardo Da Vinci