Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Experience
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
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
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
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
