Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
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"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
