Famous Quotes

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

Saint Teresa of Avila 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 Saint Teresa of Avila

• "To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."

• "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."

• "For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

• "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."

• "God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."