We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
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