Thomas Carlyle Quotes

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

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

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

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The doer alone learneth.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

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

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.