Aldous Huxley Quotes

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

You learn from everything.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.