Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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"
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
