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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Music at Night and Other Essays (1931), “Tragedy and the Whole Truth”
We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963The Doors of Perception (1954), p. 159
Are not the richest and most significant experiences of man precisely those which are the least patient of verbal reproduction?
L. P. Jacks1860–1955The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James1843–1916Madame de Mauves (1874), Ch. V
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005)
- Inspiration
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson, Vol. I, p. 137
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XII
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (15 April 1778) p. 393
- Philosophy
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
FJFranklin D. Jones1879–1967
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Art
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung1875–1961
But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787), B 1
- Knowledge
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme… If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
Doris Lessing1919–2013“Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing” All Things Considered NPR (11 October 2007)
- Writing