Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Quotations
Experience
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
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"
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
-Anonymous
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
