Experience Quotes

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" "The journey is better than the inn" "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves" "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." "The greatest scholars are not the wisest men" "The life so short, the craft so long to learn" "One of the major reasons why a flow experience involves such deep enjoyment is that it is self-contained" "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." "I'm so high up, I'm like how is this a different altitude" "We do not want merely to see beauty...we want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it" "We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment" "Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall" "Reflective thinking turns experience into insight " "Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through." "I think you should automatically get smarter as you get older." "The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it."