Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Quotations
Experience
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"
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
