Famous Quotes

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

Ellen Glasgow 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 Ellen Glasgow

• "It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

• "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

• "Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"

• "No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

• "A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."