Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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
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"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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 - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
