Lin Yutang Quotes

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

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

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Nobody is born wise.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

All experience is good experience.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

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.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

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

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Everything is a learning experience.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

You can learn so much just by observing.