Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
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 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
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
