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"
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.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps