Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
