Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
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 teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
