Experience Quotes

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Charles Peguy

He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Frederick Buechne

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

Sigmund Freud

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Leonard Hodgson