Quotes About Learning

Experience is the highest authority.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

There is no substitute for experience

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Everything is a learning experience.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.