Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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"
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"
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"
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
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
