Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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"
