We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Quotations
Experience
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
