In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
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"
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
