Famous Quotes

"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."

H. L. Mencken 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 H. L. Mencken

• "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

• "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

• "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."

• "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

• "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."