Logo
Quote by Samuel Smiles
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but

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. – Samuel Smiles

Other quotes by Samuel Smiles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. – Samuel Smiles

Category:
Hope
Author
Samuel Smiles
Read Quote

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

Category:
Failure
Author
Samuel Smiles
Read Quote

The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. – Samuel Smiles

Category:
Peace
Author
Samuel Smiles
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Experience
category

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. – Jack Kevorkian

Category:
Experience

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. – Ang Lee

Category:
Experience

Deep experience is never peaceful. – Henry James

Category:
Experience

Id like to work with Justin Bieber. Hes talented and hes so young. I know what hes going through. Ive lived what hes living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself. – Donny Osmond

Category:
Experience

Random Quotes

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him. – Minna Antrim

Category:
Men & Women

As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
good

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy. – Tommy Chong

Category:
funny

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. – Henry Louis Gates

Category:
History