Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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"
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
