Famous Quotes

"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

Ursula K. Le Guin 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 Ursula K. Le Guin

• "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

• "There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."

• "I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy."

• "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."

• "It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."