Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Quotations
Experience
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"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
