We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-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.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho