Famous Quotes

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."

Miguel de Cervantes 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 Miguel de Cervantes

• "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."

• "Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

• "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

• "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this."

• "He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all."