Albert Bandura Quotes

We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Sometimes you don't know what is it you want to do until you try it.

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.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.