Famous Quotes

"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."

Roger Ascham 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 Roger Ascham

• "There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."

• "Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."

• "Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning."

• "Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."

• "In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning."