Immanuel Kant Quotes

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

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

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

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

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

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

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

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

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

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

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

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

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

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.

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

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