Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because its complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and hes able to keep processing that as well. – V. S. Naipaul

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. – Aeschylus

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. – William Kingdon Clifford