Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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 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"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
