Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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 is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
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
