"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds"
This quote is written / told by Rene Daumal between March 16, 1908 and May 21, 1944. He/she was a famous Writer from France.
The author also have 3 other quotes.
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"