Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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 is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
