Famous Quotes

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Samuel Butler 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 Samuel Butler

• "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

• "The history of art is the history of revivals."

• "Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

• "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

• "The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."