In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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"
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"
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 - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
