Famous Quotes

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius 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 Confucius

• "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

• "Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."

• "When anger rises, think of the consequences."

• "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."

• "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."