In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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
