Personal Experience Quotes

We employ education and the convictions gained through the intermeshing of personal experiences and fresh ideas to establish the configuration of our being that in actuality was our mysterious potentiality from the very inception of our birth.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissiliency, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the many possible patterns of human experience including interactions between humankind and nature and with one another. We must learn from our chronicles and assist future generations by living a fully engaged life attempting to ascertain how to live in an authentic and joyous manner.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

~ C.s. Lewis

Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.

~ Marty Rubin

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

~ Marty Rubin

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

~ Eric Weiner

I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no disappointments, no hurting myself, just being me and my imaginative self. Trust me because, when I have expectations, I am setting myself up for disappointment.

~ Muhammad Usman Aman

Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with their God and they used to 'feel' the power of prayer. They've since learned that it was all a farce, that their feelings were internal emotions and not some external force.

~ David G. Mcafee

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

~ Emma Goldman