Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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
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"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
