Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
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"
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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"
