A Quote by Albert Camus

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Quote Topics

Acquire Cannot Create Experience Experiments Making Must Undergo

Quote Author

Albert Camus
French - Philosopher
November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

R. D. Laing

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

Gordon W. Allport

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?

Gary Zukav

You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

Trevanian

My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

Sonia

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Mitch Albom

I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

W. Somerset Maugham

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

H. E Davey

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Jamaica Kincaid

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

Maxwell Maltz

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

Jenny Slate

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

Voltaire

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.