The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Quotations
Experience
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
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
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
