Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
Quotations
Experience
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
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
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
