Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
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"
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"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
