Quotes About Experience

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

First learning, then proving I'd learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren't the same thing.

Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them—usually—but lose the experience itself. We

It was literally the best food she had tasted in two hundred and fifty years.

Pleasure is rare, pain is plentiful, and, delusional or not, it hurts like hell.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. Bullets are cheap and full of big dramatic pictures. Some bullets are true virtuals that allow people to experience—safely—hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and mass murder. Hell of a kick.

Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.

There was an English major. He wanted to be a writer and tell our story from the inside—which had only been done thirty or forty times before.

It hurts like hell," I warned. He shrugged. "Most things do.

I mean to learn everything I can while I can,' I said. 'If I find myself outside, maybe what I've learned will help me live long enough to learn more.

He shrugged. "It happened. I saw it. You vanished and you reappeared. Facts.

Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it?

You will know more of Jesus in one sanctified trial, than in wading through a library of volumes, or listening to a lifetime of sermons.

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.What is the secret of the trick?How did I get so old so quick?

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.