Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
