Henry Rollins Quotes

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

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

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.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

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

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

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.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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