Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
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"
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
