Quotes on Life Lessons

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius 

Any idiot can face a crisis — it's day to day living that wears you out. Aton Chekhov

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey

By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. Richard Branson

Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. Colette

No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. John Ruskin

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

The years teach us much the days never knew. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things which hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn ...and change. Carl Rogers

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Mark Twain

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e.e. cummings

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of an education. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J.K. Rowling

Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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