A Quote by John Dewey

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

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Experience Learn Reflecting

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John Dewey
American - Philosopher
October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

Otto von Bismarck

To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.

Kasper Schmeichel

Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.

Rodney Williams Jr.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

John C. Maxwell

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Rick Warren

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Yvonne Orji

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.

George Cukor

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

William Nicholson

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Robert A. Heinlein

Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.