We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Quotations
Experience
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
An experience teaches ably the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
-Andre Gide "Andre Gide"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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 is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
