Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
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"
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
