In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
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
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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"
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
