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"The Salmon of Doubt"
Quotations
Experience
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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 - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
