A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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"The Salmon of Doubt"
Quotations
Experience
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
