Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

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

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.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

Life is the greatest teacher.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

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

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

You learn from everything.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

All experience is good experience.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

There are some things you only learn through experience.