Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
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"
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
