Aldous Huxley Quotes

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

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

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Wisdom begins at the end.

We are wiser than we know.

When I was 16, I didn't really know what intuition was as a word, even. It's one of those things you experience, but you don't really know what it is.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

Problems are messages.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.