Famous Quotes

"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

Charles de Secondat 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 Charles de Secondat

• "Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."

• "As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

• "There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."

• "Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."

• "Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."