Famous Quotes

"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."

Samuel Alexander 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 Samuel Alexander

• "An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."

• "Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."