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"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

Marshall McLuhan 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 Marshall McLuhan

• "As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

• "Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."

• "If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."

• "American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

• "In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."