Famous Quotes

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

Alan Watts on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Alan Watts

• "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

• "And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

• "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

• "And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

• "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."