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"
Quotations
Experience
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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 is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
