In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
