Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
