Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
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
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
