Henry Hazlitt Quotes

Learn by practice.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

There is nothing like practice.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

Knowledge must come through action.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

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

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

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

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.