We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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.