Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
