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"
Quotations
Experience
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
