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"
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
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 reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
