Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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
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
