Famous Quotes

"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."

Quintilian 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 Quintilian

• "Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."

• "Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire."

• "As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."

• "The perfection of art is to conceal art."

• "Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."