Thomas Lynch Quotes

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The doer alone learneth.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

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

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.