Famous Quotes

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."

Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Jean-Paul Sartre

• "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

• "If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."

• "There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."

• "The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best."

• "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."