quotations about experience
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Texts & Pretexts
Experience is another word for mistakes.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
There's nothing so easy to learn as experience, and nothing so hard to apply.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Change Your Brain
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams
Experience to extremes
RUSH
"The Enemy Within", Grace Under Pressure
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Problems of Life and Mind
That considered judgment of mankind upon such and such a troubling matter, of sex, of property, or of political right, is anchored or rooted in eternity. There comes a day when by some one experience he is startled out of that morning dream. It is not the first death, perhaps, that strikes him, nor the first loss--no, not even, perhaps, the first discovery that human affection also passes (though that should be for every man the deepest lesson of all). What wakes him to the reality which is for some dreadful, for others august, and for the faithful divine, is always an accident. One death, one change, one loss, among so many, unseals his judgment, and he sees thenceforward, nay, often from one particular moment upon which he can put his finger, the doom which lies upon all things whatsoever that live by a material change.
HILAIRE BELLOC
On Something
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.
R. D. LAING
The Politics of Experience
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
The Collected Essays