"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost." ― William Ellery Channing Topic(s): Experience More From William Ellery Channing "The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought." "Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves." "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth." More In Experience "From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."― Aldous Huxley "Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."― Annie Besant "A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."― George Mason