Famous Quotes

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

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."