Haruki Murakami Quotes

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

All experience is good experience.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

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

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.