Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-John Keats
Quotations
Experience
Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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
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"
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
