Top 100 Experience Teacher Quotes
#2. Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.
George Sarton
#3. Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy ... Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.
Audie Murphy
#4. A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.
Frederick Lenz
#5. They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
Lee Smith
#6. Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
Oliver DeMille
#7. I have the philosophy that I'm different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he's worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.
Bernard Hopkins
#8. 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
#9. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
#10. I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.
Cillian Murphy
#11. In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
Thiruvalluvar
#12. We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
Sasha Azevedo
#13. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vern Law
#14. Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own.
Gina Greenlee
#15. When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience ... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.
Paulo Freire
#16. That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
Adrian Gonzalez
#18. Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
Ogwo David Emenike
#19. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#20. Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers the goods.
Kin Hubbard
#21. It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.
Julia Cameron
#23. My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
Byron Katie
#24. If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example?
Terry Blakeman
#25. Sometimes being a great teacher means learning to function in a dysfunctional environment. Save your fighting strength until you have enough experience to be taken seriously, and until you know which battles o fight.
Roxanna Elden
#26. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law
#27. 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
#28. Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
William Arthur Ward
#29. While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash
#30. Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.*
Louisa May Alcott
#31. Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.
Debra Moffitt
#34. Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.
Evan Esar
#35. Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.
Gautama Buddha
#36. In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
#37. Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars ... that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.
Frederick Lenz
#41. I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.
Joss Whedon
#42. Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue.
Fanny Kelly
#43. Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.
Kevin Durant
#44. I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what you might like it to be. Leave it alone!
Frederick Lenz
#46. The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
Frank McCourt
#47. Students engaged in direct experience with materials, unforeseen obstacles, and serendipitous discoveries may result in understanding never anticipated by the teacher.
Sylvia Libow Martinez
#48. Come to me said the world. I was standing
in my wool coat at a kind of bright portal
I can finally say
long ago; it gives me considerable pleasure. Beauty
the healer, the teacher
death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.
Louise Gluck
#49. 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 selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher
Robin S. Sharma
#50. I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.
David Shuster
#51. Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers ... Restlessness and discontent are vital things ... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#52. Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, then the lesson afterward.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#53. Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.
David Denby
#55. Don't fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.
Toni Sorenson
#56. Though it is not the most enjoyable experience in the world, hardship is a very good teacher. When you encounter it, you cannot help but to listen to it. It speaks with power.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#57. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
Piet Mondrian
#58. Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.
Muni Natarajan
#59. Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
Nicky Gumbel
#60. It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.
Frederick Lenz
#61. I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
Skeet Ulrich
#64. Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
Ann Landers
#65. Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
Toba Beta
#66. Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences ... But the lessons of experience are hidden.
Dan Millman
#67. As I told you earlier, pain is a powerful teacher. To transcend pain, I had to first experience it. I wouldn't be where I am today without it,
Robin S. Sharma
#68. Experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?
Chris Crutcher
#69. I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.
Kirby Larson
#71. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.
Toni Sorenson
#72. We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
David Warlick
#73. In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#74. I'd always told myself that I deserve good things, that I was worthy, but if I ever believed it. You can't tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.
Penelope Douglas
#75. Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others.
Simen Agdestein
#76. Everyone knew the hero in any good romance had to have his fair share of experience. If he didn't, how was he going to be a good teacher, showing his lady love how to give him pleasure at the same time giving her more than she'd ever dreamed?
Kristen Ashley
#78. If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.
Rachel Higginson
#79. 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
#80. We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
#81. Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.
Lynsay Sands
#82. An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.
Frederick Lenz
#83. I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
Henry Rollins
#84. Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.
Sakyong Mipham
#86. Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
William James Mayo
#87. The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.
Chogyam Trungpa
#88. It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.
Maria Montessori
#89. How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
Lorraine Toussaint
#90. Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.
Andy Andrews
#91. Experience is the best teacher."... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of
Dennis Linn
#92. 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
#93. I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola
#94. Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.
Toni Sorenson
#95. Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
Jose Ferreira
#96. Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
Ajahn Chah
#97. Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.
Napoleon Hill
#98. No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.
Cal Thomas
#99. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.
Mark Stephens
#100. 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
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