Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
Quotations
Experience
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"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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
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"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
