--- title: "9 Experience Thought Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Experience Thought quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Experience Thought sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/ann-mah-219732_american_there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite_3189859.jpg" --- > [“There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-mah/there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite-as-wonderful-as-being-an/) [Ann Mah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-mah/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/ann-mah-219732_american_there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite_3189859.jpg) > [“Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaotan-fawehinmi/experience-has-thought-me-that-there-is-only-one-short-step-between/) [Olaotan Fawehinmi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaotan-fawehinmi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/olaotan-fawehinmi-22046_death_experience-has-thought-me-that-there-is_1956269.jpg) > [“So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/so-philosophy-purifies-the-will-but-philosophy-is-to-be-understood-as/) [Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/will-durant-948_education_so-philosophy-purifies-the-will-but-phil_894209.png) > [In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandra-fuller/in-ways-i-don-t-entirely-have-the-words-for-an-experience-thought-or/) [Alexandra Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandra-fuller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/alexandra-fuller-7586_lessons_in-ways-i-don-t-entirely-have-the-words_2242911.png) > [For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/for-the-first-time-i-am-working-on-a-book-that-is-not-limited-and/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/john-steinbeck-71_bits_for-the-first-time-i-am-working-on-a-boo_2309341.jpg) > [A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lanchester/a-novel-usually-begins-in-my-experience-with-a-thought-or-image-that/) [John Lanchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lanchester/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/john-lanchester-2601_alone_a-novel-usually-begins-in-my-experience_389355.png) > [“there is no new experience in life. something may happen to you that you think has never happened before, that you think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mccoy/there-is-no-new-experience-in-life-something-may-happen-to-you-that/) [Horace McCoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mccoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e90/horace-mccoy-85517_experience_there-is-no-new-experience-in-life-somet_2196922.png) > [Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/being-established-in-my-life-buttressed-by-my-thinking-nature/) [Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_absence_being-established-in-my-life-buttressed_2667096.jpg) > [“Tell me what you make of Locke, then, and his difference with Descartes." Vivian took the book from him and spread her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/tell-me-what-you-make-of-locke-then-and-his-difference-with-descartes/) [Lisa Kleypas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-kleypas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/lisa-kleypas-111_books_tell-me-what-you-make-of-locke-then-and_3180584.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-thought/#itemlist", "name": "Experience Thought Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Mah" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-mah/there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite-as-wonderful-as-being-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/ann-mah-219732_american_there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite_3189859.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/ann-mah-219732_american_there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite_3189859.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/ann-mah-219732_american_there-was-no-experience-i-thought-quite_3189859.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.” — Ann Mah", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Olaotan Fawehinmi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaotan-fawehinmi/experience-has-thought-me-that-there-is-only-one-short-step-between/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/olaotan-fawehinmi-22046_death_experience-has-thought-me-that-there-is_1956269.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/olaotan-fawehinmi-22046_death_experience-has-thought-me-that-there-is_1956269.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/olaotan-fawehinmi-22046_death_experience-has-thought-me-that-there-is_1956269.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life…” — Olaotan Fawehinmi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“So philosophy purifies the will. 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established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maurice Merleau-Ponty" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/being-established-in-my-life-buttressed-by-my-thinking-nature/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_absence_being-established-in-my-life-buttressed_2667096.jpg", "contentUrl": 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