Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
An experience teaches ably the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
-Andre Gide "Andre Gide"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
