Famous Quotes

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Georg C. Lichtenberg

• "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

• "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

• "We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."

• "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

• "Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven."