Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
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
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"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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 one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
