Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
