Famous Quotes

"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

James 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 Baldwin

• "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone."

• "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

• "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."

• "But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

• "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."