The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-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
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
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"
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
