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
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
