Quotes About Learning

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Some people have nothing but experience.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.