Swami Vivekananda's Quotes On Experience ~ Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Experience is the only source of knowledge.

—Swami Vivekananda

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In this article we'll make a collection of Swami Vivekananda's quotes on experience.

All experience is preceded by desire for happiness. There was no beginning of experience, as each fresh experience is built upon the tendency generated by past experience; therefore desire is without beginning.^[Source]
All that is in your nature is the result of habit, and habit is the result of experience. There cannot be any knowledge but from experience.^[Source]
Experience is the only source of knowledge.^[Source]
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.^[Source]
Experiences becoming fine become impressions; impressions revivified become memory. The word memory here includes unconscious co-ordination of past experiences, reduced to impressions, with present conscious action. In each body, the group of impressions acquired in a similar body only becomes the cause of action in that body. The experiences of a dissimilar body are held in abeyance. Each body acts as if it were a descendant of a series of bodies of that species only; thus, consecutiveness of desires is not to be broken.^[Source]
I find experience is a far more glorious teacher than any amount of speculation, or any amount of books written by globe-trotters and hasty observers.^[Source]
Man learns as he lives, and experience is the greatest teacher in the world.^[Source]
The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.^[Source]
The universe of experience is our own enamel, so to say, and the real universe is the parasite serving as nucleus.^[Source]
There cannot be any knowledge without experience.^[Source]
Truth many times hits hard — as we all know by our experience.^[Source]
We get truth from both of these by means of experience. The truth gathered from internal experience is psychology, metaphysics, and religion; from external experience, the physical sciences.^[Source]
We may read books, hear lectures, and talk miles, but experience is the one teacher, the one eye-opener. It is best as it is.^[Source]
We see that it is true that a certain hereditary experience is transmitted from father to son, and so on.^[Source]
Your experience is nothing to me, nor mine to you.^[Source]