Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Quotations
Experience
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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
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"
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 fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
