Samuel Smiles Quotes

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Experience is a great teacher.

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

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

You learn from everything.

All experience is good experience.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

Everything is a learning experience.

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.

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

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Everything's a learning experience.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

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