In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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 is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
