Quotations
Experience
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Terry Pratchett
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
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
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
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 teaches only the teachable.
- Aldous Huxley
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
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
- 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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran
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