Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way-before one began.

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.