Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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.