Quotes About Learning

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.