Famous Quotes

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

James A. Baldwin 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 James A. Baldwin

• "People can cry much easier than they can change."

• "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

• "Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

• "The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

• "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."