Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
