Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
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 the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
