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"
Quotations
Experience
-Andre Gide "Andre Gide"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
