Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Every experience makes you grow.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.