We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Quotations
Experience
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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
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"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
