Famous Quotes

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

Karl Kraus 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 Karl Kraus

• "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

• "Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

• "Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."

• "Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world."

• "If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."