Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
