Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
