Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Terry Pratchett
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
- John Dewey
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
- Voltaire
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
- George Washington
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
- William James
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
- Krista Tippett
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
- John Dewey
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
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
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