Famous Quotes

"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"

Ellen Glasgow 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 Ellen Glasgow

• "It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

• "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

• "No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

• "No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

• "A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."