Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey