In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
