Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
