Famous Quotes

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

James Russell Lowell 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 James Russell Lowell

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

• "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."