In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
