Lisa See Quotes

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

We cannot learn men from books.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

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

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

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.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

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

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.