Experiential Truth Quotes

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.