Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes

The best university is the university of life.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

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

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

You have to live to really know things, my love

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

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.

I learn from experience.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

I have studied at the school of the world.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

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

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

The best teacher in life is experience.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.