Famous Quotes

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

Blaise Pascal 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 Blaise Pascal

• "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

• "The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

• "It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

• "Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them."

• "Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."