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Quotations
Experience
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
