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"All experience is an arch, to build upon."

Henry Adams 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 Henry Adams

  • "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

  • "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

  • "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

  • "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

  • "I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him."

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