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"
Quotations
Experience
-Andre Gide "Andre Gide"
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
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
