Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
