Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
