Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Experience
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
