Language Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Words without experience are meaningless.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

It's impossible, said the pride. It's risky, said the experience. It's meaningless, said the common sense. Give it a chance, whispered the heart.

— Anonymous

“...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of…

— Joan Didion

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming…

— Peter Hammill

“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that…

— Christopher Hawke

“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

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 down.

— Alexandra Fuller

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience.

— Alice Miller

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets…

— Fred Alan Wolf

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words,…

— Plutarch

I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the…

— Alberto Manguel

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

— Thomas Fuller

That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly,…

— Tavi Gevinson

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle