Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
