Paulo Coelho Quotes

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

There are some things you only learn through experience.

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

Everything is a learning experience.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

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

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

I feel like there's value in experience.

Everything's a learning experience.

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

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

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

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

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

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.