Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-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.
-Andre Gide "Andre Gide"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
