Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
