Famous Quotes

"You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience."

J. K. Rowling 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 J. K. Rowling

• "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

• "The best of us must sometimes eat our words."

• "I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."

• "The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny."

• "No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing."