Abstraction Quote by Jack Vance

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

— Allen Tate

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual…

— William James

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

— Cheryl Richardson

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction…

— John Dewey

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

— Tony Robbins

Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of experince.

— Anonymous

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

— Daniel Kahneman

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual…

— Tariq Ramadan

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

— George Santayana