For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

A book is not completed till it's read.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until personal experience has brought it home

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Until you actually experience something, you just don’t know.

Proof itself, of any sort, is impossible, without an axiom (as Gödel proved). Thus faith in God is a prerequisite for all proof.

We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character.

Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.