Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
- Harvey McKay
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
- William James
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
- John Dewey
An experience teaches ably the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
- Andre Gide
Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Aldous Huxley
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
- Helen Keller
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Terry Pratchett
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- Douglas Adams
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
- Voltaire
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