Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

The best university is the university of life.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

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

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?' I say, I may not have a degree - but I have a Masters in real life.

There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.