Laura Riding Quotes

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

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

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

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

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

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

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

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

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

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.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

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.

I learned from my past.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.