Famous Quotes

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde 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

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

• "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

  Abraham Lincoln on Experience

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

• "No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

• "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

• "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

• "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."