Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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 fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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
