Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Quotations
Experience
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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 a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
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"
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
-Douglas Adams
"The Salmon of Doubt"
