Quotations
Experience
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
- John Dewey
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
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
- Voltaire
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
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Ambrose Bierce
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
- William James
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Terry Pratchett
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
- John Dewey
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