The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Experience
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"
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"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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 simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
