Aristotle Quotes

I believe that we learn by practice.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

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

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

We learn to do by doing.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.