Steve Jobs Quotes

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

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

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.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.