Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Experience is the teacher of all things.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

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

We read books to find out who we are.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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.

Experience is a great teacher.

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.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

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

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I feel like there's value in experience.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

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

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

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

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

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