Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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 only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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"
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"
