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
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
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 only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
