Famous Quotes

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller 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 Helen Keller

• "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

• "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

• "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

• "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."