Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

When we learn from experience the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness it's a strength.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Tactics fitness stroke ability adaptability experience and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience rather than understanding that influences behavior.

Reason observation and experience the holy trinity of science.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation the wonder of science scientific ways of thinking and the history of scientific ideas rather than laboratory experience.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience heightened creativity or exceptional performance by athletes and artists we harbor a greater life than we know.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.