Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Quotations
Experience
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
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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 reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
