We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey