Albert Camus Quotes

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

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

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

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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.

The truth is lived, not taught.

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.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

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

There is no better teacher than life itself.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

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.

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

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.