Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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
