Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
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
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
