Samuel Smiles Quotes

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.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

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

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

You learn more doing than doing training.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

Experience makes us wise.