Famous Quotes

"All experience is an arch, to build upon."

Henry Adams 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 Henry Adams

• "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

• "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

• "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

• "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

• "I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him."