Experience Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the…

— Robert Trout

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

— Goldwin Smith

He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a human heart…

— Alok Mishra

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost…

— David Wroblewski

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is of the…

— Samuel Smiles

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag