Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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"
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
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
