Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
“A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.”
Source:(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 154).
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 20).
“Those who experiment and experience a lot in life have little taste in things.”
First Mansions, Ch. 2 : The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
“These little things are great to little man.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 42.
“A lot of learning can
be a little thing.”
England Home and Beauty for Sale, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)
“So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience?”
Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: A friend told me that there are these clean and sober dykes that have piercings every couple months just to get high. It's about learning about my body. I didn't know my body could do this. It's not exactly pleasure. It's more like vision. I didn't know the body is such a visionary factory.
Basically we grew up not wanting to know that we had bodies. And it's not as if these piercings are in that deep — it's just on the surface. So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience?
