Famous Quotes

"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."

Isadora Duncan 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 Isadora Duncan

• "Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."

• "It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."

• "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

• "The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."

• "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."