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
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 reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
