Sophocles Quotes

Knowledge must come through action.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

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

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

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

Education without execution is extinction

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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.

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 by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

To build experience, you have to play.

We learn to do by doing.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

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

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

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