Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.