In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
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
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
