"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."
"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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire."
"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."
"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."