Famous Quotes

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Henry Miller 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 Miller

• "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

• "An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

• "An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

• "The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."

• "Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."