Quotations
Experience
Experience is the extract of suffering.
- Arthur Helps
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
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
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Aldous Huxley
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
- John Keats
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- Douglas Adams
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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