Famous Quotes

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

Voltaire 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 Voltaire

• "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

• "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

• "We are rarely proud when we are alone."

• "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

• "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."