Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
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"
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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"
