Quotations
Experience

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

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

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman

The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
- William James

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce

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