Tim Ferriss Quotes

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

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

Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

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

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

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

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.