Famous Quotes

"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Rainer Maria Rilke

• "I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

• "Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

• "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

• "The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

• "One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."