The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
