Direct Quote by Stephen Levine

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

— Oscar Wilde

“Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've…

— Michael Crichton

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

— Fernando Pessoa

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

— Oscar Wilde

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience…

— Eckhart Tolle

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

— William Osler

The only way to experience an experience is to experience it

— Bill Moggridge

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition…

— Thomas Metzinger

Experience is a form of paralysis.

— Erik Satie

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

— Sergei Lukyanenko