Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Experience
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
-John Dewey
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"
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"
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 fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
