Famous Quotes

"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

Elizabeth Bowen 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 Elizabeth Bowen

• "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

• "There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone."

• "Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

• "Education is not so important as people think."

• "Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible."