Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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 one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
