Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
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 is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
