Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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 is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
