In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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 is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
