Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
