Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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 "Andre Gide"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
