A Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Swami Vivekananda

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Experience Only Teacher

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Swami Vivekananda
Indian - Priest
January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Walter Savage Landor

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

Andy Andrews

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.

Robin Sharma

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Harry Callahan

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

Dan Millman

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

Evan Esar

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Andy Andrews

The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.

Parker J. Palmer

Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

Rza

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.