Quotations
Experience
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
- Voltaire
Experience is the extract of suffering.
- Arthur Helps
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Ambrose Bierce
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
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- Douglas Adams
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
- John Dewey
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
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 is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
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