The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
