Werner Herzog Quotes

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

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

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not end until your soul goes home (until you die). Every moment in the earth school offers you important opportunities to learn about yourself. Those things have to do with your soul. The Earth school operates with exquisite perfection and efficiency whether you are aware of it or not.

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".