Famous Quotes

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

George Eliot 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 George Eliot

• "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

• "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

• "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."

• "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

• "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."