Vikas Swarup Quotes

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

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.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

What you learned on the streets of Brooklyn will be a damn sight more helpful to your president than anything you learned at Harvard.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex—in the streets.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.