Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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"
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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
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"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
