David Mitchell Quotes

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.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Experience is a great teacher.

Information is not knowledge.

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

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

In my viewpoint, experience is grossly overrated.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

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

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Life is the great teacher.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience