Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
- John Dewey
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
- Anonymous
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
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
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
- Krista Tippett
Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Aldous Huxley
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
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- Douglas Adams
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
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