Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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"
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
