Pete Seeger Quotes

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

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

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

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

Experience is a great teacher.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.