Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
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
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"
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
