Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.