B. C. Forbes Quotes

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I learn from experience.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Experience makes us wise.

I learned from my past.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

You can observe a lot by watching.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You learn from everything.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

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

Experience is a great teacher.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Everything is a learning experience.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

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