Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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 a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
