Famous Quotes

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

George Bernard Shaw 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 George Bernard Shaw

• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

• "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

• "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."