Famous Quotes

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

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."