Charles Caleb Colton 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.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

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.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

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

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.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.