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"
Quotations
Experience
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-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"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
