Famous Quotes

"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

Sigmund Freud 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 Sigmund Freud

• "If youth knew if age could."

• "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."

• "The goal of all life is death."

• "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

• "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."