Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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"
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
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
