Famous Quotes

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

Dag Hammarskjold 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 Dag Hammarskjold

• "A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

• "Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

• "In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

• "Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

• "'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."