Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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"
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
