Famous Quotes

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

Marcus Tullius Cicero 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 Marcus Tullius Cicero

• "As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."

• "Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

• "The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

• "Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."

• "Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age."