Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
- George Bernard Shaw
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- Douglas Adams
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
- Krista Tippett
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
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
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
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
- Voltaire
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Terry Pratchett
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
- John Dewey
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