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"The Salmon of Doubt"
Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
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
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
