Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Experience is the cane of the blind.

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Everything is a learning experience.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Information is not knowledge.

The truth is lived, not taught.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.