timetalk uses cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our site. If you continue without changing your browser settings, we'll assume that you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more by reading our cookies policy.

x

Famous Quotes

Back to Author

"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."

Lionel Blue on Experience

More quotes about Experience

  • "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

    Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

  • "The only source of knowledge is experience."

    Albert Einstein on Experience

  • "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

    C. S. Lewis on Experience

  • "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

    Oscar Wilde on Experience

  • "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

    Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Lionel Blue

  • "My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

  • "To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."

  • "I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."

  • "Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life."

  • "During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."

© Supatel Limited 2024