The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.