Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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"
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
