Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
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
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
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
