Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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 the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
