Hermann Hesse Quotes

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

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

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

Experience is a great teacher.

I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.

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

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

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.