Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

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

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.

There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.

I have played all generations in reel and real life - grandson, son, father, and grandfather - and each relationship has taught me something.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.