Quotes About Experience

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.