Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
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 reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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"
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
