Famous Quotes

"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Taylor Coleridge

• "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

• "A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

• "As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."

• "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."

• "That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."