Famous Quotes

"There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past."

Umberto Eco 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 Umberto Eco

• "Translation is the art of failure."

• "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

• "We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."

• "The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

• "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."