Haruki Murakami Quotes

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.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

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

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

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.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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

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

I try to learn with experience. This is my process of learning, so I try my 100 per cent.

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

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.