Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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"
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
