Quotes About Experience

Youth is wholly experimental.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Wine is bottled poetry.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

If I could go through it all again,the slender iron rungs of growing up,I would be as young as any,a child lostin unreality and loud music.

We are old-timers,each of us holds a locked razor.

Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

Unaccustomed as I was to gracious dining, I realized in a flash that this wasn't it.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

Now for me, music is indeed a spiritual experience. It may be hypnotizing or violently stimulating. I listen to and appreciate all kinds of music, from folk, to jazz, to classical, to hard core rock.

What the continents had in common was far less important than what was different. To be successful on the peaks it was more important to learn intuitively and adapt to the new cultures and climbing conditions, than to ascend relying on past experience.