Francis Bacon Quotes

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

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

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

We learn to do by doing.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

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

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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

All genuine education comes about through experience.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

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

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.