In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-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
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
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
