Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
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
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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 fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
