Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
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"
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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
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 - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
