Charles Handy Quotes

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

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

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

Everyone learns from their experiences.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

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

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You learn from everything.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

All experience is good experience.

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

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.