Aldous Huxley Quotes About Experience

Quotes about: Experience

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  Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Experience teaches only the teachable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Humility, Reality

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

• I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

  Aldous Huxley

  Heaven, Experience, Visionaries

  1956 Heaven and Hell.

• Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

  Aldous Huxley

  Training, Experience, Significant

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

• Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Significant Things, House

  Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

• The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Learning, People

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

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