E. O. Wilson Quotes

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

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

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.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

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.

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.

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

.. 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.

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.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

If you don’t use a technology, you will never understand it.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

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

There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

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

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.