Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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"
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"
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
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 the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
