Famous Quotes

"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

Amos Bronson Alcott on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

• "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

• "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

• "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

• "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

• "We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."