Pete Seeger 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.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

Experience is a good teacher.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

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

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

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

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

All experience is good experience.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.