You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Camus, Albert

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
- Chesterton, G.K.

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

I am a part of all that I have met.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it?and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again?and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Twain, Mark