Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
