Mary Travers Quotes

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.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.

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

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

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.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.