William James Quotes

There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

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

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

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.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

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.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

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

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

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

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

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.