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.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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