#experience

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#experience

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#experience

I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#experience #experience

Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter. ↗

— George Carlin

#carlin #drugs #hippy #experience

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#arises #begins #does #experience #follow

You can have all the schooling you want, it doesn't make you a bit smarter or wiser. It is experience through the act of doing that is the greatest teacher. ↗

— R. G. Risch

#school #teacher #wisdom #experience

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work. ↗

— Alice Bag

#self-defense #violence #experience

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie. ↗

— James Patterson

#eat #food #experience

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it. ↗

— James Patterson

#villains #experience

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#experience