"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience." - Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." - Albert Camus

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it." - G. K. Chesterton

"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." - Henry James, Partial Portraits

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them." - George Santayana

"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"I am a part of all that I have met." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." - PATRICK HENRY, speech (1775)

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - VERNON LAW, in This Week

"Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments." - LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks

"I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move."
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Ulysses

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan

"The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly." - Chomsky, Noam in 'Language and Problems of Knowledge: the Managua Lectures' 1988

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things." - Wittgenstein, Ludwig