Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Quotations
Experience
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
