Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
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"
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
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
