The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Experience
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
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
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 fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
