All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Experience”

“Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posteriry; for knowledge is to be aquired only by corresponding experience. How can be know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.”
“Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?”
“In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.”
“Who is old enough to have learned from experience?”
“The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.”
“I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.”
“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”
“Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.”
“We are superior to the joy we experience.”
“It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.”
“We are older by faith than by experience.”
“The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.”
“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.”
“It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.”
“Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.”
“That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.”
“The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.”

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