The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
