A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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"The Salmon of Doubt"
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
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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
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
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
