Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
