Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — ALDOUS HUXLEY

a man only knows what he's experienced

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

Aldous Huxley captured the core reality: “Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you.” —

it is not exact or relevant to say “I experience” or “I think.” “It” experiences or is experienced, “it” thinks or is thought, is a juster phrase. Experience, a serial course of affairs with their own characteristic properties and relationships, occurs, happens, and is what it is. Among and within these occurrences, not outside of them nor underlying them, are those events which are denominated selves.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

People are changed not by exhortations to do things but by experiences... they may be changed by experience, in a way that could never be achieved with mere good advice.

values cannot be changed through reason, only through experience.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Experience in the degree in which it is experience is heightened vitality. Instead of signifying being shut up within one’s own private feelings and sensations, it signifies active and alert commerce with the world; at its height it signifies complete interpenetration of self and the world of objects and events.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

La experiencia no tiene ningún valor ético. Es simplemente el nombre que los hombres dan a sus errores