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"The Salmon of Doubt"
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
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"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
