“Failure isn’t the best teacher. Neither is experience. Only evaluated experience teaches us.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Failure isn’t the best teacher. Neither is experience. Only evaluated experience teaches us.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Misattributed
Source: Often attributed to Kerouac's On the Road, the quote cannot be found in that book, nor in any of Kerouac's other published works.
http://zenhabits.net/read/ How to Read More: A Lover’s Guide (3 October 2011)
Zen Habits (2007–present)
“To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ.”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 572.
“Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.”
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils.
Source: Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils (1986) by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Roy Howat, Naomi Shohet, and Krysia Osostowicz, p. 23
“The best learners are also teachers.”
Dave Ulrich (1953) American academic
Source: HR from the Outside In, 2012, p. 105
“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”
Gordon Neufeld (1947) Canadian psychologist
Source: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
“Experience is the best legacy men could possess and never desert in life.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
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