Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
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"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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 "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
"The Salmon of Doubt"
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
