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"
Quotations
Experience
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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 fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
