In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
