In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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"
