"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for 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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."