Conscious Experience

Famous quotes containing the words conscious and/or experience:

“The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him—a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured—captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)