Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
