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
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 one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
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 is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
