Ma Yansong Quotes

I have studied at the school of the world.

Travel teaches as much as books.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

We can learn from everybody, man.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I am an educator who thinks globally.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.