Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
