Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Experience
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
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"
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 is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
"Speaking of Faith"
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
