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"
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
