Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
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 fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
