Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
