Famous Quotes

"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."

Herbert Read 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 Herbert Read

• "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

• "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

• "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

• "The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."

• "The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."