Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Quotations
Experience
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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 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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
