Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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 is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
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"
