Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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 "Andre Gide"
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
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
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
