More quotations tagged with “experience”
Experience teaches only the teachable.
—Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
—Aldous Huxley
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
—Albert Camus
We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.
—Abraham Lincoln
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."… I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.
—Jeffrey Eugenides