Muhammad Abduh Quotes

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

There are things to learn from people who have already done what you're trying to do.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

By far the best proof is experience.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before you.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

When I was growing up I would always watch the more experienced players to see what they were doing and why they were doing it.

In terms of being able to adapt to any situation on any given night, in any given moment and that just comes with nearly twenty years of experience and paying attention to the guys that I've tried to emulate throughout my career.

There were some great veterans who I learned so much from and who helped make me the best I could be as a player.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.

Experience makes us wise.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.