Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Quotations
Experience
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
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 is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
