Alexander the Great Quotes

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

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

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

You don't study photography. You do it.

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

I believe that we learn by practice.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

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.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

Teach by works more than words.

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

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.