Quotes About Experience

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

You learn from your mistakes.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

We learn to do by doing.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

I hate learning through experience. Just once I'd like to learn something because someone was nice enough to tell me in advance.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.