Famous quotes containing the words significant and/or undesirable:
“Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)