Bayard Taylor Quotes

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

We are wiser than we know.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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

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

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Everything is a learning experience.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.