Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

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

There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

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

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

We learn to do by doing.

Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

Knowledge must come through action.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance