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.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common of thinking by the body of the people so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe our perception of it so right our only universe is perception.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell and bursts into a thousand meanings.

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

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

As a medical doctor it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.