Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.  - Mark Twain Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde The only source of knowledge is experience. - Albert Einstein We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. - Pete Seeger A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. - Ralph Marston A woman’s life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. - Wallis Simpson Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde