Famous Quotes

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."

Horace 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 Horace

• "Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

• "Anger is a short madness."

• "The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

• "Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."

• "A picture is a poem without words."