Famous Quotes

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

• "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

• "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."

• "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

• "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."