Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
