Famous Quotes

"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."

William Morris 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 William Morris

• "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

• "So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die."

• "History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created."

• "If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."

• "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."