Quotes About Learning

The reward of pain is experience.

Experience trumps brilliance.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]