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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
