Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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
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 "Andre Gide"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
