Esther Forbes Quotes

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

All experience is good experience.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.