Famous Quotes

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

Emily Dickinson 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 Emily Dickinson

• "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

• "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

• "Where thou art, that is home."

• "Beauty is not caused. It is."

• "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."