Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

The doer alone learneth.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

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

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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

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

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.