Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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"
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"
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
