Henry Rollins Quotes

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

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

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

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

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

President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

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

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.