Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
